What comes to your mind when you see a Floppy Disk?
Posted by ObjectiveCalm3222@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 66 comments
Posted by ObjectiveCalm3222@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 66 comments
oboshoe@reddit
the sound they made while booting off one.
musical to my ears.
JasonMckin@reddit
Somehow the 5.25 A:\ boot check sounded just a bit more satisfying than the 3.5 B:\ boot check.
nhaines@reddit
It was meatier.
JasonMckin@reddit
Here’s a particularly angry mofu: https://youtube.com/shorts/pHqKRyWdB1w?si=crdLozdw-uzV_RTp
nhaines@reddit
That's the "I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed" of floppy disk boot sequences!
CoffeePuddle@reddit
I loved how different sector formatting on different computers would make different sounds as they loaded.
Different programs would access it in different ways. It was all very physical and added a viscerality to the experience.
emperor-xur@reddit
You can store Optimus Prime’s brain on one floppy. At most that was 1.2 megabytes.
PuttingFishOnJupiter@reddit
My entry to the new Doomsday Book back in the 80's.
It's a available online, and some of my text and info is on it!
coffinspacexdragon@reddit
Frogger
Techaissance@reddit
“What’s *actually* on this one?”
Appropriate-Idea5281@reddit
The importance of the paper punch so you can write to both sides
bleachinjection@reddit
Oregon Trail on my elementary school Apple II.
DirkStanleyIII@reddit
And Carmen Sandiago
lostraven@reddit
My first computer, a Commodore 64. And how wonky its drive could be.
AccountantOther4972@reddit
The movie Wargames
NorCalNavyMike@reddit
*”Shall we play a game?”
Outrageous_Degree716@reddit
How much I used to love taking them apart and collecting the film inside them
aManandHisShed@reddit
Bdos err on b: when saving an assignment.
ThisBell6246@reddit
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.
Distribution-Radiant@reddit
"Been awhile since I saw 8 inches up close and personal"
_Erin_@reddit
King’s Quest on the PCjr.
Lexwild53@reddit
Using them in cartridges to backup a System 34
cbdoc@reddit
Zaxxon. First game I bought on floppy on my first machine (IBM XT).
thewalruscandyman@reddit
Dysentery.
draimus@reddit
A time before crushing responsibility.
morgul12@reddit
Abso-fraggin-lutely
Raxxla@reddit
That is the finest statement I've seen in awhile.
Rey_Mezcalero@reddit
Yeah better days indeed.
Days of wonder and fascination, discovery and imagination
astroaxolotl720@reddit
True haha
MelinaSeeDee@reddit
DOS games...
EdiblePeasant@reddit
All the disks that came with my DOS copy of Wordperfect.
Spiritual-Badger9063@reddit
3.14 mb wasn’t enough for even 1 titty pic or a single mp3
pyrulyto@reddit
My arm (I got a tattoo of a 5 1/4 floppy)
probably_platypus@reddit
grind --- grind --- beep --- shshshshshshshsh
followed by A:>
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 😁
East_BoundNDown144@reddit
Number crunchers on Apple IIe elementary school computer room
cl326@reddit
When I whip out my big 8-inch
OldDiehl@reddit
512k
Rey_Mezcalero@reddit
Carefully cutting a notch on one side to get an “extra” disk on the back
CableDawg78@reddit
High school
octahexxer@reddit
My favorite pinball game Tristan fit on a floppy
FinalF137@reddit
5-1/4 then C64, 3-1/2 then AOL disks in my 386 Packard Bell.
dtb1987@reddit
oregon trail
bareboneschicken@reddit
Good times!
JasonMckin@reddit
This does: https://youtu.be/3KS02q0BUnY
ObjectiveCalm3222@reddit (OP)
Music to my ears…
okcool561@reddit
It reminds me of a black screen with green text.
ha5dzs@reddit
Terror of file loss. (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail.
smart-t@reddit
First thing that comes up is 360Kb or 1.2Mb?
EngineerMinded@reddit
I remember when the Commodore Disk Drives could not find something, they would make a machine gun sound!
toungespasm@reddit
A hole punch
ElevatorGuy85@reddit
Disc Doubler!
mrspelunx@reddit
INIT HELLO
ElevatorGuy85@reddit
Apple ][ for the win! All 140KB of it!
PowerPie5000@reddit
Staying up fairly late and then getting up early before school to get some gaming time on my Commodore Amiga 500.
International-Aide37@reddit
What comes to mind? Better days...
EngineerMinded@reddit
When they were actually "Floppy Disks."
zaskar@reddit
Pirated c64 games and the hours and hours I spent trading them
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.
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:
Smooth_Lead4995@reddit
That typing class we had in the elementary school computer lab in the school basement.
Cat, dog, fish, pig....
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)
shrikelet@reddit
Bad sectors
Fragholio@reddit
Ultima on my C64!
ATK80k@reddit
The smell
ChikkunDragon@reddit
My subscription for Shareware