How many spare useless floppys do you have?

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Lifer
Oct 24, 2000
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I have about a hundred... and they are all just sitting in a box, because i hate floppies and never use them anymore.
 

fdiskboy

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Sep 21, 2000
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Until the read time is drastically improved, I don't care if they can store 1Gig on floppies, I still won't use 'em. Not when CDR's are so cheap, and Direct CD is relatively painless. (Even without DirectCD, burners keep getting faster and faster--screw floppies!)
 

SSP

Lifer
Oct 11, 1999
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I don't have any use for it. I either burn my files to a CDRW, or store it the HD. It's not useful for me anyway. I can't share those disks with my friends, or use it in school (cause you need their drive to use the 32MB Disk).
 

Windogg

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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I couldn't even begin to count. Personally I have several hundred including many 720K disks from the past. In the office, I wouldn't be surpirsed if the number exceeds 1000. What a waste of plastic.

Windogg
 

ratkil

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Jan 12, 2000
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100's, I collected the aol floppies cause I knew they would be rare and worth millions some day....buwhahahahahahahahahahaha kidding of course

I hate floppies, failure rate was too high, and data transfer time is pathetic.
 

Turdorf

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Feb 5, 2001
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I have a large box of 5.25" floppies which is about 900 individual floppies. I've been saving them since my Tandy computer.

I also have about 600 3.5" floppies. Seventy five of them are from AOL, Compuserve, Prodegy or some other computer company.

Both of these boxes are in the basement labeled - Old fashion disks - Could be antique in 20 more years. Save.
 

thebestMAX

Diamond Member
Sep 14, 2000
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Great. I just threw out a whole bunch. Like cleaning out your attic, I guess. Keep something for years and throw it out a day before you need it.
 

Shalmanese

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Sep 29, 2000
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All my floppies die of bad sectors.. sniff

I have a special grave for all my dead floppies
 

kami

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Heheh, I know of a place where you can buy them new for 5 cents apiece :)