I found this old software on a medium I don’t recognize at my church. Does anyone know if this has value to anybody?
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It’s the guts of 3.5" floppies, like these, they usually stored 720kB, then 1.44MB, but the latest versions (double sided) were 2.88MB.
The larger one at the bottom is from a 5 1/4" (orange in this picture, the big daddy in the picture is 8", first type I used, with COBOL)
… and now you kids know where the “save” button icon came from.
They were not meant to be removed from their protective envelopes, they’re probably damaged now.
This reminds me of when I got a new PC when I was younger and I was shocked… “WHAT?! THEY COME WITH 128MB RAM NOW!!! AND THEY HAVE A DVD TRAY??? No more floppy disks!!!”
Fuck, those were nice times (except for dial-up internet).
There’s nothing quite like passing around copies of games that are eight-diskettes large and finding out that disk #8 is unreadable after a 30min install. Good times.
I have the original floppy set for MS Office 4.3 for Windows 3.11.
Fourty-three 3.5" disks.
Hahaha, mfw the last few disks is the same face the morning after a spicy burrito.
The part that’s wild to me is I have an SD card in a computer in my pocket that cost $10 or so and is basically disposable but it’s larger than the hard drive in my first computer from 25 years ago
You can get a 128GB pendrive for like 15€…
That’s crazy.
I remember upgrading my Macintosh computer from 512kB to A FULL MEGABYTE! Wow, what a difference, suddenly I could run two programs at once - even three small ones.
Ah, the eighties… Those were the days.
First game I ever played was on those 8” floppies. It was a turtle game where you would type in DOS commands and make it move. I can’t remember the command prompts but it was fun enter like forward 1000 and it would blast across the screen.
That’s it! Ha ha wow haven’t seen that since elementary school.
Logo ? Anyway there was a this “programming langue” with a turtle and it had like 6 commands : move forward/backwards, turn left/right, pen up/down :-D
That sounds like Logo
Good old turtle. You could also program loops, so you could make fancy shapes like circles.
I remember that! As others have posted, Logo.
Nobody ever asks why it’s the C:\
Pour one out for A:\ and B:\
Originally, personal computers only had a floppy disk drive, which got letter A, and later models could have two floppy drives, so A and B. When hard disk drives appeared they got assigned to letter C (and typically D for a secondary HDD). E then became customary for optical drives (CD-ROM, DVD-ROM etc.)
Me, an average Linux enjoyer: “What’s a drive letter?”
sda, sdb
hda, hdb
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/dev/disk/by-uuid/*
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/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0
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That looks like a floppy disk with the protective casing removed…
12 megabytes of RAM, 500 megabyte hard drive, built-in spreadhseet capabilities and a modem that transmits it over 28,000 bps
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Games and stuff
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Bros
The box is from some fancy Apple software from long before most of you were born.
The contents are just the skeletal remains of assorted species of the Save Icon.
Beagle Bros was a software company that developed useful quirky software for the Apple ][ computer. They had a schtick that all of their manuals and promotional materials were styled like flyers from “old West” salesmen. They were actually pretty funny if you were in on the joke.
Looks like the physical storage medium of a 3 1/2 inch diskette. Which is usually called a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk, except with this one it’s a bit of a misnomer, since this iteration has a rigid case, unlike the older 8 inch and 5 1/4 inch versions. Or should have, it appears to be removed in OP’s case.
The disk itself is flexible, hence the floppy disk. In contrast a hard disk had rigid platters, hence hard. The outer casing has nothing to do with it.
You’re technically correct, the best kind of correct. And that said, from a daily-use perspective, the 3½" type has a rigid case, i.e. not floppy. So the storage medium is floppy, while the whole object that the user is expected & supposed to interact with is not. That’s why I find “3½ inch floppy disk” to be a bit of a misnomer.
The 8" and 5¼" types have soft carriers, which is why I have no qualms calling those “floppy disks.”
My heart aches for those floppies’ demise.
the disk that lies inside a floppy disk (a 5.25 floppy disk judging by the size)
Buffalo bill works there
Copy A: . B:\
floppy disk days long and goneRemoved by mod
Interesting they look like three and a half inch floppies out of their sleeves
Well, I feel old.
3.5” floppy discs which have been removed from their plastic shells.
