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I found a floppy disk the other day and I showed it to my son. He had no idea what it was and I said it was sort of like a USB drive today just bigger and slower. He wanted to know how many videos we used to get on them? I laughed and said they weren't really used that way.
 
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IdRatherBeSkiing said:
I found a floppy disk the other day and I showed it to my son. He had no idea what it was and I said it was sort of like a USB drive today just bigger and slower. He wanted to know how many videos we used to get on them? I laughed and said they weren't really used that way.
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I don't think they make towers with 3.5" drives anymore or the 3.5" disks.
 
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It's funny watching old movies and the spies or hackers have to protect the very important floppy disk from falling into enemy hands.
 
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Corduroy said:
It's funny watching old movies and the spies or hackers have to protect the very important floppy disk from falling into enemy hands.
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My son was watching Home Alone 1 & 2 and it struck me how impossible those movies would be if only 1 of them had a cell phone.
 
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I have an very old fashioned rotary dial phone that belonged to my grandmother. When my daughter was about 8 years old she asked me what it was. I told her it was a phone. She had no idea how it worked. She gave me such a look that I can't even describe it. She'd never seen a phone that wasn't a push button cordless variety.
 
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my very last desk top had a floppy holder...the guy I had build it said he'd just added it as he didn't know what to do with the parts and he thought I might still have a few floppies around with info to transfer...
 
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Floppy - as in 3½-inch hard case or 5¼-inch TOO floppy?

My son found some cassettes in my schoolbag - and was completely enchanted by all the clicks, whirrs and beeps that played from his Walkman (yeah, it was a few years ago)
 
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Cassette tapes are cool with the kids these days. Maybe not their use but their image. Will that ever happen to CDs? It's weird.
 
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I found an old cassette tape I had stored away long ago.It was my mum's. It can play and record. It must be 25 years old at least. I pulled it out and there was an old tape in it. We turned it on knowing it wouldn't work but what the hell

Not only did it work, the sound quality was astounding...and I do mean ASTOUNDING. Nothing is built to last like that any more.
 
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lone wolf said:
Floppy - as in 3½-inch hard case or 5¼-inch TOO floppy?

My son found some cassettes in my schoolbag - and was completely enchanted by all the clicks, whirrs and beeps that played from his Walkman (yeah, it was a few years ago)
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Sorry, it was the latest floppy the 3.5 inch hard case. And my first floppy I ever used was bigger than 5.25. It was I think 8 inches or maybe 11.
 
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