Ola
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If you use a Floppy diskette, you are unquestionably 30 years of age or older.

There's something uniquely satisfying about the CLICK of putting a 3.5-inch floppy disk in the drive. It's a shame Gen Z doesn't get to enjoy it.🤣

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many vivid memories!
02:20 AM - Jun 26, 2023 (Edited)
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Yogi Thomas
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In response to Ola.
In college and beginning of my career 80s, I was there before we had computers on desk using floppy disks! We used keypunch data cards input to mainframe computer to print reports. The advantage learning programming languages☺️

As a college intern at IBM, I had a computer on desk, using intranet
11:54 AM - Aug 12, 2023 (Edited)
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Konstantine
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In response to Ola.
Everyone remembers 3.5", 5.25", and 8" disks, but zip disks/drives never seem to get any love.
11:39 AM - Aug 12, 2023
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R o K p h i s h
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In response to Ola.
A 3.5" Floppy Disk was an essential component of sneakerware ...
11:30 AM - Aug 12, 2023
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Kalind
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In response to Ola.
I remember both the small and large floppy disks
11:08 AM - Aug 12, 2023
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Sue_in_SF
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In response to Kalind.
The large ones were actually floppy!
02:28 PM - Aug 12, 2023
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John Scott
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In response to Ola.
Oh please. I have used 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that were truly floppy. These 3.5 disks barely bend AND they have a protective cover. Whimps. 😬
01:13 PM - Jun 26, 2023
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Saint Clinton
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In response to Ola.
With the very first computer that I used, we used computer punch cards. With the very first cimputer that I owned, one loaded programs via cassette tape. The very first time that I went onto the Internet, the World Wide Web didn't exist.
01:00 PM - Jun 26, 2023
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Arick West
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In response to Ola.
Yeah, the nightmare of disk errors and fails all the time.....
12:55 PM - Jun 26, 2023
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Fully Debanked
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In response to Ola.
Yea, I remember the good old days, trying to install Windows NT from floppy disk. All 40 of them.
12:27 PM - Jun 26, 2023
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Clarke
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In response to Ola.
I am 71 and abandoned floppies 2 decades ago. Today I can buy a 32 gig flash drive for about $2.50. How many floppies is that?
12:24 PM - Jun 26, 2023
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Paul Chenoweth
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In response to Ola.
Some of us 🦕 remember upgrading from 1" paper tape to 5.25" floppies...and having to watch tv in the darkness of our caves before electricity 😉
11:53 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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hal
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In response to Ola.
My I taught myself C writing a device driver for an 8" drive. I used to have to swap out the platters in the mainframe from hard drive units bigger than a washing machine. Each one held 5MB.

All my first coding was done on either punch cards or dumb print terminals.
11:28 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Jim Flanigan
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In response to Ola.
Paper tape
Punch cards
8” floppies
5” floppies
Diskettes
CD
USB stick
Memory card

Geez. I’m old.
11:27 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Dwayne Tuck
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In response to Ola.
I also miss the hiss-bong-bing-bing of my US Robotics Sportster 56K modem connecting.
07:51 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Susan Sampson
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In response to Ola.
Remember the trauma when they did not eject! Or was that CD's??? So many changes in my lifetime, crazy!!
07:22 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Socio-gen
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In response to Ola.
I'm old enough to remember when floppy disks were the size of a 45 cover, and were actually "floppy."

Th first computer I used was a Radio Shack TRS-80, in data processing class. My first personal computer was a third- or fourth-hand Apple IIe, in 1991.
07:17 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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RobPalmerIRL (he/him/his)
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In response to Ola.
Of course I came up when 3.5 inch floppies were essential to school work. I can tell you how many I had and how many reports I had to do on it.
06:35 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Ethical Atheist
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In response to Ola.
3.5 floppy?

Youngun.
05:52 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Ola
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In response to Ethical Atheist.
lol. I belong to the generation that encountered the 8-inch diskette. I use 3.5 diskette because, generally, it seems to be the more popular one.
06:07 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Pollik
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In response to Ola.
My memory is of the tedium of loading nearly 30 floppies to instal MS Office
04:10 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Ola
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In response to Pollik.
😅
04:12 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Dennis A
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In response to Ola.
Before that we had first 8" and then 5.25" floppy disk that were thin and actually floppy. They didn't have that same click and the little rigid 3.5" eventually held much more data. Memories...
03:47 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Ola
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In response to Dennis A.
Of course, I am aware of that. I belong to the generation that encountered the 8-inch diskette. I use 3.5 because, generally, it seems to be the more popular one.
06:10 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Sneaky Burrito
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In response to Dennis A.
If you took the 3.5 inch ones apart there was still a floppy part inside...of course then the disks didn't work again.
11:29 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Michael J Sheridan
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In response to Ola.
If you never knew the joy of dropping a deck of punch cards that hadn't been properly numbered so your program could be sorted into its correct sequence again, you're a n00b.
02:40 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Kinzie Mat
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In response to Ola.
02:23 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Ola
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In response to Kinzie Mat.
🤣🤣🤣
02:25 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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