https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/
A good read!
A good read!
Digital Man wrote to All <=-
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-t he-floppy-disk-business/
A good read!
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digital man (rob)
Quite interesting! I might buy some 1.44M and 5 1/4 inch disks. Still have quite a few floppy drives.
As slow as they were, I do miss them a little. There is a joy in the tactile sensations you get, the satisfaction of loading the disk, hearing the machine whirr and grind, the soft LED lighting and being able to format it to different capacities.
Re: Article on the last flopp
By: Boraxman to Digital Man on Mon Sep 19 2022 10:01 pm
Quite interesting! I might buy some 1.44M and 5 1/4 inch disks. Still h quite a few floppy drives.
As slow as they were, I do miss them a little. There is a joy in the tactile sensations you get, the satisfaction of loading the disk, hearing the machine whirr and grind, the soft LED lighting and being able to form it to different capacities.
i totallly do not miss that shit at all.
bad disks sucked. especially when installing an OS
Re: Article on the last flopp
By: MRO to Boraxman on Mon Sep 19 2022 03:05 pm
Re: Article on the last flopp
By: Boraxman to Digital Man on Mon Sep 19 2022 10:01 pm
Quite interesting! I might buy some 1.44M and 5 1/4 inch disks. Still h
quite a few floppy drives.
As slow as they were, I do miss them a little. There is a joy in the tactile sensations you get, the satisfaction of loading the disk, hearing
the machine whirr and grind, the soft LED lighting and being able to form
it to different capacities.
i totallly do not miss that shit at all.
bad disks sucked. especially when installing an OS
When I got some old pc's out to try and connect to the internet with them, I realized how many disks I have that went bad. I had them stacked in piles in
a box that was placed in a closet where there were extreme changes in temperature during the seasons.
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