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[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (15 children)

I remember when floppies where called floppy because they were huge and floppy (that's what she said). Before the hard shell smaller floppies became a thing.

[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Still, hard floppys was really easy to damage - fart near it, and it's unreadable

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They weren’t that bad. Hell AOL mailed millions of those damn things in envelopes and they usually worked.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tape over the read only hole and reuse it: H A C K E R M A N

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I always made sure to grab a dozen of those for homework on my way out of CompUSA.

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