Floppy disks- anyone still use them?

Janepig

Savvy_Sue wrote:

The Australian equivalent of Sellotape is Durex ... so a friend whose nickname was Kinky reported, after he'd worked in a bookshop with an Australian, who'd once called across the shop floor "Hey Kinky, sling us the Durex!" :rotfl:

Even further off topic, in Oz they call our flip flops "thongs", which also leads to many culturally confused double entendres!!!

Jxxx

bingo_bango

buses7675 wrote:

Hi All,

Yeah, I remember our Acorn Electron (still got it somewhere!) took about 10 mins to load any of the three games we had for it, Blockbusters, Bulls Eye or Overdrive! - Get a tape error and you'd have to start all over again!

he, he.....I remember my ZX81. A whole 1K, for which we paid double and got a 16K RAM expansion pack. The RAM pack was the size of a pound of butter!
Now that was a machine for tape loading problems.
Although, in fairness, it did come with a programming manual, which helped me learn BASIC. Wonder how many of the youngsters on here would know how to do that?
Even better...how many of them could be bothered doing the debugging?

Ahhh...the good old days.

everythingblogcast

studentphil wrote:

Ever so briefly!!! They are interesting if nawt else.

All you could do with them was to play space inviders.

everythingblogcast

And look at Apple when they started with the Lisa and now its iMac (G5/intel) and the Mac Pro. Back when Lisa was there who knows the price of the spec of system that the iMac or Mac Pro would cost maybe in the millions.

studentphil

I am surprised how many people at my uni still use floppies.

IvanOpinion

bingo_bango wrote:

he, he.....I remember my ZX81. A whole 1K, for which we paid double and got a 16K RAM expansion pack. The RAM pack was the size of a pound of butter!
Now that was a machine for tape loading problems.
Although, in fairness, it did come with a programming manual, which helped me learn BASIC. Wonder how many of the youngsters on here would know how to do that?
Even better...how many of them could be bothered doing the debugging?

Ahhh...the good old days.

Do you remember having to hold it in place with a large very strong elastic band

Ivan

Fifer

IvanOpinion wrote:

Do you remember having to hold it in place with a large very strong elastic band

Ivan

I think we propped it up from underneath on a thin paperback.

Fifer

Savvy_Sue wrote:

so a friend whose nickname was Kinky reported, after he'd worked in a bookshop with an Australian, who'd once called across the shop floor "Hey Kinky, sling us the Durex!" :rotfl:

Why, where was he wanting to stick his stiffy?

bingo_bango

Fifer wrote:

I think we propped it up from underneath on a thin paperback.

Yep, had to do that as well. And the manual was too thick to use what with that huge ring binder on it.
Wonder what happened to mine. I put it in the attic in a box when I got my Spectrum

superscaper

I still use a floppy for installing windows xp, the point at which I need to install 3rd party drivers for the RAID chipset.