https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/

A good read!
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Re: Article on the last floppy seller
By: Digital Man to All on Thu Sep 15 2022 18:01:55

DM> https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/
DM> A good read!

yea it was very interesting

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** On Thursday 15.09.22 - 18:01, Digital Man wrote to All:

DM> A good read!

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DM> https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-t
DM> he-floppy-disk-business/

DM> A good read!
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Quite interesting! I might buy some 1.44M and 5 1/4 inch disks. Still have
quite a few floppy drives.

As slow as they were, I do miss them a little. There is a joy in the tactile
sensations you get, the satisfaction of loading the disk, hearing the machine
whirr and grind, the soft LED lighting and being able to format it to different
capacities.

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Re: Article on the last flopp
By: Boraxman to Digital Man on Mon Sep 19 2022 10:01 pm

> Quite interesting! I might buy some 1.44M and 5 1/4 inch disks. Still have
> quite a few floppy drives.
>
> As slow as they were, I do miss them a little. There is a joy in the
> tactile sensations you get, the satisfaction of loading the disk, hearing
> the machine whirr and grind, the soft LED lighting and being able to format
> it to different capacities.

i totallly do not miss that shit at all.
bad disks sucked. especially when installing an OS
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Re: Article on the last flopp
By: MRO to Boraxman on Mon Sep 19 2022 03:05 pm

> Re: Article on the last flopp
> By: Boraxman to Digital Man on Mon Sep 19 2022 10:01 pm
>
> > Quite interesting! I might buy some 1.44M and 5 1/4 inch disks. Still h
> > quite a few floppy drives.
> >
> > As slow as they were, I do miss them a little. There is a joy in the
> > tactile sensations you get, the satisfaction of loading the disk, hearing
> > the machine whirr and grind, the soft LED lighting and being able to form
> > it to different capacities.
>
> i totallly do not miss that shit at all.
> bad disks sucked. especially when installing an OS

When I got some old pc's out to try and connect to the internet with them, I
realized how many disks I have that went bad. I had them stacked in piles in
a box that was placed in a closet where there were extreme changes in
temperature during the seasons.

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Re: Article on the last flopp
By: Moondog to MRO on Mon Sep 19 2022 11:11 pm

> Re: Article on the last flopp
> By: MRO to Boraxman on Mon Sep 19 2022 03:05 pm
>
> > Re: Article on the last flopp
> > By: Boraxman to Digital Man on Mon Sep 19 2022 10:01 pm
> >
> > > Quite interesting! I might buy some 1.44M and 5 1/4 inch disks. Still h
> > > quite a few floppy drives.
> > >
> > > As slow as they were, I do miss them a little. There is a joy in the
> > > tactile sensations you get, the satisfaction of loading the disk, hearing
> > > the machine whirr and grind, the soft LED lighting and being able to form
> > > it to different capacities.
> >
> > i totallly do not miss that shit at all.
> > bad disks sucked. especially when installing an OS
>
> When I got some old pc's out to try and connect to the internet with them, I
> realized how many disks I have that went bad. I had them stacked in piles in
> a box that was placed in a closet where there were extreme changes in
> temperature during the seasons.
>
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Those floppies were so fragile that you could store them properly and still have them
go to waste.

I lost some good games to data erosion on those ones. Good thing you can still get
them elsewhere.

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Re: Article on the last floppy seller
By: Digital Man to All on Thu Sep 15 2022 06:01 pm

> https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-f
> lop py-disk-business/
>
> A good read!

That was cool, thanks.

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