What comes to your mind when you see a Floppy Disk?

Failure. Oh those things would fail for absolutely no reason. You would copy something at school, drive home on your bicycle and by the time you got home, you would have a corrupted floppy.

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Distribution-Radiant@reddit

"Been awhile since I saw 8 inches up close and personal"

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Lexwild53@reddit

Using them in cartridges to backup a System 34

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cbdoc@reddit

Zaxxon. First game I bought on floppy on my first machine (IBM XT).

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draimus@reddit

A time before crushing responsibility.

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Raxxla@reddit

That is the finest statement I've seen in awhile.

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Rey_Mezcalero@reddit

Yeah better days indeed.

Days of wonder and fascination, discovery and imagination

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EdiblePeasant@reddit

All the disks that came with my DOS copy of Wordperfect.

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Spiritual-Badger9063@reddit

3.14 mb wasn’t enough for even 1 titty pic or a single mp3

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pyrulyto@reddit

My arm (I got a tattoo of a 5 1/4 floppy)

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probably_platypus@reddit

grind --- grind --- beep --- shshshshshshshsh

followed by A:>

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pyrulyto@reddit

That, but a few years before, “beep, TECTECTECTECTECTECTECTECTECTECTEC, grind, grind, grind”, folowed by ]🟩

(Apple Disk ][ drives didn’t have a sensor to know in which track the head is, so the first thing the disk controller firmware did was to tell the drive to send the track outwards (or inwards, I don’t remember where tracks started) enough times to be sure it is at track 0, but that made the drive make this horrible sound that still gives me the jibes 😁

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East_BoundNDown144@reddit

Number crunchers on Apple IIe elementary school computer room

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cl326@reddit

When I whip out my big 8-inch

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OldDiehl@reddit

512k

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Rey_Mezcalero@reddit

Carefully cutting a notch on one side to get an “extra” disk on the back

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CableDawg78@reddit

High school

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octahexxer@reddit

My favorite pinball game Tristan fit on a floppy

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FinalF137@reddit

5-1/4 then C64, 3-1/2 then AOL disks in my 386 Packard Bell.

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dtb1987@reddit

oregon trail

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bareboneschicken@reddit

Good times!

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JasonMckin@reddit

This does: https://youtu.be/3KS02q0BUnY

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ObjectiveCalm3222@reddit (OP)

Music to my ears…

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okcool561@reddit

It reminds me of a black screen with green text.

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ha5dzs@reddit

Terror of file loss. (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail.

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smart-t@reddit

First thing that comes up is 360Kb or 1.2Mb?

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EngineerMinded@reddit

I remember when the Commodore Disk Drives could not find something, they would make a machine gun sound!

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toungespasm@reddit

A hole punch

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ElevatorGuy85@reddit

Disc Doubler!

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mrspelunx@reddit

INIT HELLO

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ElevatorGuy85@reddit

Apple ][ for the win! All 140KB of it!

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PowerPie5000@reddit

Staying up fairly late and then getting up early before school to get some gaming time on my Commodore Amiga 500.

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International-Aide37@reddit

What comes to mind? Better days...

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EngineerMinded@reddit

When they were actually "Floppy Disks."

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zaskar@reddit

Pirated c64 games and the hours and hours I spent trading them

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voxadam@reddit

Loading up 'adv' (aka Colassal Cave Adventure) on our Z80 based CP/M machine (complete with dual 8" floppies, a green VT100 terminal, and wood veneer sides) as a young child. I can still hear those floppy steppers.

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astroaxolotl720@reddit

Oh man. The sounds, the smells, the feel of it, clicking into place. Drive noises. The phosphor glow of the command line haha. Old games, C64, Apple II, Atari, DOS, Windows, old MacOS, the IIgs lol. A:\ B:\ - commands like sys b:

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Smooth_Lead4995@reddit

That typing class we had in the elementary school computer lab in the school basement.

Cat, dog, fish, pig....

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Ok-Scratch-478@reddit

I used to copy diskettes of programs as a TA (Teacher's Assistant) in middle school. I rigged up a system of four different computers so that I could copy the disks more efficiently. The software license granted us this ability. (It was old MECC software running on Apple II's)

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