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Offline jrgp

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Floppy Dicks
« on: July 23, 2008, 01:43:57 pm »
Anyone still use them? I just found a stash of floppies in my brother's closet. I got bored so I stuck an old floppy drive (all of the old ones I have still work, they're built like tanks) in one of my servers so I can get to it over the network. I didn't feel like putting it in one of my normal pc's since all of their 3.5 bays are taken up by hard drives.

I found loads of 90's porn and old cool .midi sounds.

What about you guys? Anything old and interesting lying around on floppy disks?
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Offline RabidTreeFrog

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Re: Floppy Disks
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2008, 01:47:59 pm »
old Windows 95 disks is all i have.
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Re: Floppy Disks
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2008, 02:05:21 pm »
Lemmings.
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Re: Floppy Disks
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2008, 02:08:40 pm »
There's a floppy disk in my room.. I'm not sure how it got here, but it's the first one I've seen since elementary school.
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Re: Floppy Disks
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2008, 02:11:25 pm »
Quote from: jrgp on July 23, 2008, 01:43:57 pm
I found loads of 90's porn

Ugh, what, 400x500 size to fit on flops?

I still use flops to transfer some bitmaps over to my ancient Toshiba laptop. Found some docs I typed up when I was still learning the computer [that was when I was 8 or so]. If you think my English is horrid now... ugh.
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Re: Floppy Disks
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2008, 02:18:33 pm »
I found Dungeons & Dragons floppies and some 5.25-inch floppies with other games on them.
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Offline Laser Guy

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Re: Floppy Disks
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2008, 02:20:21 pm »
Quote from: Eagles_Arrows on July 23, 2008, 02:18:33 pm
I found Dungeons & Dragons floppies and some 5.25-inch floppies with other games on them.
You mean those flat + big ones? God... I foud about 6 in the attic with a floppy reader o.O
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Offline a-4-year-old

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Re: Floppy Disks
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2008, 02:27:34 pm »
windows 98 startup disk
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Offline Lumen-Shroom

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Re: Floppy Disks
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2008, 02:29:30 pm »
I remember windows 98.. Ahh. Good times.
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Offline urraka

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Re: Floppy Disks
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2008, 04:27:03 pm »
Don't even have a floppy drive. For god sake, what an obsolete piece of crap.
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Offline Lumen-Shroom

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Re: Floppy Disks
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2008, 04:28:22 pm »
I wonder when blu-ray will come into play with 'puters.
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Re: Floppy Disks
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2008, 04:43:40 pm »
It already has. At the Staples Business Depot where I work we have a laptop with a blu-ray player.
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Re: Floppy Disks
« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2008, 04:47:20 pm »
Man I can still remember using the floppies which were even bigger than 5.25". I'm so old. >.< Anyway, I still have Whacky Wheels on floppies somewhere. I also use floppies with my SNES dev unit: Super Ufo Hyper Drive 6... I can't remember the exact name... I whip it out every now and then to play either some homebrew snes games or fan translated stuff.

I remember in high school we had computer class. >.< Don't even get me started as to how gay that was. Our computer teacher made us buy a single 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy for $1.00, that we had to use for everything all year. He barely knew anything about a computer himself. Yep. Fun times on those old 486's. Luckily thanks to floppies, we snuck in Doom and Wolfenstein. Yup. Good times.
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Re: Floppy Dicks
« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2008, 04:57:28 pm »
LOOOOOOL
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Re: Floppy Dicks
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Re: Floppy Dicks
« Reply #15 on: July 23, 2008, 05:02:02 pm »
Sorry, I don't have any floppy dicks laying around the house.
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Re: Floppy Dicks
« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2008, 06:49:41 pm »
Used to play loads of DOS games when I had my old old IBM.

Strider, Alley Cat, Bounce, J-Bird, Digger, Space Invaders, the awesome one I forgot the name of where you're a plane and have to shoot motorcycles and cars and then dock with a blimp to refuel....

Still got them all on 7.5" floppy dicks.
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Re: Floppy Dicks
« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2008, 07:02:45 pm »
Quote from: The Geologist on July 23, 2008, 05:02:02 pm
Sorry, I don't have any floppy dicks laying around the house.
yeah who would want a floppy dick?

I remember we had some dos computer when I was barely able to read, we had a disney game were you were mickey mouse and it was kind of an adventure game only retardedly easy for us 3 year olds, anyway it had its own keyboard cover that had the keys and what they did on it and for some reason 13 odd years later I still remember that old game.
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Re: Floppy Dicks
« Reply #18 on: July 23, 2008, 08:19:35 pm »
We still use floppies to load drivers into windows 2003 machines at work when they need drivers for the RAID cards in them
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Re: Floppy Dicks
« Reply #19 on: July 23, 2008, 08:29:28 pm »
Quote from: FliesLikeABrick on July 23, 2008, 08:19:35 pm
We still use floppies to load drivers into windows 2003 machines at work when they need drivers for the RAID cards in them

That is one of the worst moments I've ever experienced, reformatting a PC to install Windows 2000+ and getting to that installation stage before realizing you do not have the RAID drivers handy and it's the only PC you have access to within 15 miles. :/
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