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Hi everyone,
Floppy disks are back:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/video/video_opm ... ?cid=short
greetings
cw
So, you thought floppy disks were gone ?
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codewalker
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So, you thought floppy disks were gone ?
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Re: So, you thought floppy disks were gone ?
probably not for long if you treat them like thatcodewalker wrote:Floppy disks are back
Re: So, you thought floppy disks were gone ?
There are all sort of use for them today; playing the Imperial march is the example!codewalker wrote:Floppy disks are back
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Re: So, you thought floppy disks were gone ?
I swear on my life that I watched that exact video on YouTube just yesterday! Amazing how life has coincidences like that.KJ67 wrote:There are all sort of use for them today; playing the Imperial march is the example!
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Re: So, you thought floppy disks were gone ?
Who said floppies are dead?
Just bought 4 new C64 games. 2 on floppy disc and 2 on cartrige.
Just bought 4 new C64 games. 2 on floppy disc and 2 on cartrige.
Re: So, you thought floppy disks were gone ?
Yep ... my father still has a floppydrive on his Windows 7 PC in use.
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buddymatkona
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Re: So, you thought floppy disks were gone ?
Out of curiosity, does anybody have a floppy over 10 years old that still works without errors? I have an old desktop hard disk that still works flawlessly after 15 years but none of my floppy media that came with it survived.
Re: So, you thought floppy disks were gone ?
Me too.PMV wrote:Yep ... my father still has a floppydrive on his Windows 7 PC in use.
I have a 3,5" floppy and card reader combo, that one: http://www.alternate.de/html/product/Te ... werk/4488/?
On my Core i7 Win 7 x64 system. ^^
Dont know why it got bad rating on that site, it works nice on my system.
I do have a 5,25" floppy disk containing the 1980 edition of A2FS1 (the first home flight simulator in history). Still working.buddymatkona wrote:Out of curiosity, does anybody have a floppy over 10 years old that still works without errors? I have an old desktop hard disk that still works flawlessly after 15 years but none of my floppy media that came with it survived.
But the majority of my floppy disks has errors. In my experience original software disks written to by factories are working much longer than the ones self written.
Re: So, you thought floppy disks were gone ?
Yup, it's true, especially because quality of the floppy disk drives was (and it's) extremely variable (some step motors were not good, other times the rails were really bad, very often the electronic was sub-par, etc.), when the duplication machines had a more strict quality control at least at the moment of their production.Thorium wrote: In my experience original software disks written to by factories are working much longer than the ones self written.
Another problem with the floppy disk drives was the alignment of the heads in time...
Another problem was the drive was not treated very well by the majority of the users (or collected dirt).
Add all this up and you will end with a great difficulty in reading a floppy made on drive A on another drive B.
I have a good 3"1/2 floppy drive in my PC
About the old disks questions: yes, I have some 5"1/4 disks from around 1990 and they works, I would say all of them. Different brands.
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Re: So, you thought floppy disks were gone ?
That video was great, it brought back memories of a program on the Apple to that displayed messages while the disk drive provided sound effects. We'll just say that the program was for adults only...
I too have a 3 1/2 inch floppy in my system mainly because I'm a bit old fashioned. I haven't used it in years. I also have a combination 3 1/2 inch floppy drive and memory card reader that isn't in my system and probably never will be. If I need a memory card reader I'll just get one that connects via USB.
I too have a 3 1/2 inch floppy in my system mainly because I'm a bit old fashioned. I haven't used it in years. I also have a combination 3 1/2 inch floppy drive and memory card reader that isn't in my system and probably never will be. If I need a memory card reader I'll just get one that connects via USB.