How Old School Floppy Drives Worked

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[negative.infinity]

Back in the 90's, rather than buying floppy disks, I would call up companies like AOL & CompuServe. I would request their installation software, but on floppy disks, rather than cds. Then I would remove the labels and format them. Ah, those were the days...

[sdfsghfdghgf]

c64: Hello XYZ?
drive: XYZ broke
c64: Understandable have a great day

[pattaschner]

It has been 5 years and you are almost correct on solid state drives.

[LegoWormNoah]

Apple II & floppy drive: Master and slave

Commodore 64 & 1541: Friend asking nicely

[TechDeals]

One of the benefits to the military using 1970's tech for nuclear missiles is that it isn't connected to anything and is really not hack-able from the outside.

If you aren't standing at the physical computer, you aren't going to accomplish anything. Likewise, there are no USB ports, no wi-fi, etc. to be used to backdoor into those systems.

If sounds stupid, but it works... then it isn't stupid :)

[Zizumia]

8:32 "MADE IN W. GERMANY"

Ahh the 80's.

[ezcondition]

"hey, get off the internet! i need to use the phone!!"

[AAvfx]

Oh, man! That brings me some serious nostalgia! 🥺

[brodykent]

As a 22 year old who has never seen a lot of this technology I found this to be exceptionally cool and informative. The only floppy disks I remember are the junk ones of the early 2000s. I remember thinking as a kid that flipping the metal tab and exposing the disc was a manual erase mechanism, because I never did that and put the disc back in to find it still readable...

[szoszaty]

Teacher brought 3, 5" floppy disk to class to show.
"Wow, you 3D printed the save icon? Cool!"

[warpspeedpower]

The interesting thing is that a 5.25" floppy is generally more durable than a 3.5" floppy. I don't know why but I've had a lot of 3.5" floppies fail for no apparent reason. Even the ones that were stored for longer periods of time and were never exposed to heavy usage.

[yetidynamics]

razor knife, i always just used a normal hole punch. the notch didn't have to be square, round holes worked

[checkpint]

I love everyone saying "Nice Video" on a 15 minute long video that was uploaded 5 minutes ago.

[radughita]

In my country, we called them “Diskettes”...

[Frani]

7:03 "let me sing you the song of my people"

[Blubb]

10:10 This tip comes over 30 years too late.

[Appleboy]

"I love em! Whether they're 8 inch, 5 1/4 inch, 3 1/2 inch..."

I could make so many lewd jokes, but I won't.

[TheAdatto]

Launching nuke.... Read error occurred please try again

[evilengine]

Loving these new videos. The interviews with LGR and the other geeks give the video a feel like a high quality production!

[Silly-g]

Some random kid: “who is this weird man and why is he hiding DVD’s in a 3d-printed save icon?”