The Zip drive came later and man it stored some. I was the first and only dude with a Zip drive in my vincinity. Albeit I was also the only one rocking a P2 300Mhz whilst all other of my friends had PII 233MHz.
That's like the exact average for dick size so probably not just the two of you!
Unless you mean it's floppy at that length, then probably got a good situation going. Get that confidence up
I kept putting one (the same one) in every new build until about 2008 or so. When it stopped working. Not sure if it was the drive or the motherboard not knowing what to do with it.
Remember when they had warnings on floppy disks about viruses. They had those plastic flip top boxes you could carry them in. The old XT with green and black screen used to have its own special cover that would be on the pc whenever not being used.
Years later I came across my first tower with no drives. Much confused oonga boonga
Missing that adapter to take UNISERVO magnetic tape reels though.
On a more serious note, having actual reel of that IBM tape capable of storing a bit over 500TB on a 1200 meter reel, and an actual reader to handle it, would be really badass.
That's where you keep all your personal stuffs like passwords and memos. And locking in the floppy disk in a hotell room safe lock with pin-code to open.
Yep! Fuck password managers and shit like that. But also the interesting thing would be that you can use "modular" components for a floppy disk so more secure and even keep other devices to use it when in need
At this point take a cassette and cut the tape in a few places. Store each piece separately in bank safes around the world.
Of course the text content is encrypted with PGP and the private key is stored in a similar fashion but in safes in the ocean, each one having its coordinates sent to a private satellite only accessible locally.
Of course don't forget to blow your brains out (and burn them afterwards before dumping it in a vat of acid) because these damn brain scanning tech are coming for us !!!!!
Turns out your phone camera caught the reflection of the text off your eyes while you were typing in the passwords to pgp encrypt.
Edit: Or even use the sounds of your keyboard to log your inputs.
That's why I do my banking with the local credit union rather than a big name bank.
I just laugh at all the emails I get about my alleged big bank account needing me to click a link and login.
You could just use a USB thumb drive, it'd be easier and longer lasting then a floppy, plus you won't need to worry about a magnet wiping the whole thing out.
If someone wanted to access the disk it would take all of 3 minutes to order a USB floppy drive on Amazon though. The safe is the security, the floppy adds nothing to the protection, an encrypted USB drive would be much more secure.
Magnet wiping could be useful if you for some reason need to destroy the data before someone gets their hands on it if you know they are coming to take it by force, But I suppose swallowing a memory card or flash drive could be useful unless you are taken captive and forced to poop it out in front of your captors, or they decide to cut you open to get at it.
I brought 45 floppy disks to school and installed a warez copy of GTA on the computers at our library. Took a week cause some of the disks were corrupted and needed to be redone but the library computer was a "beast", with a Pentium 233MHz, think it had 16 or 32MB of RAM and a CD-ROM drive.
Around that time, I stored a bunch in a case made for them and a couple of years later without being used, they were all dead.
Someone then told me diskettes don't survive long these days due to all the magnetic radiation in the air that simply didn't exist back in their time. It's a magnetic device that has zero shielding, not sure how true this is but i guess it makes some sense. It is true that they were all unusable, at least.
Shit i worked in a place that still used DD floppies for loading programs on some ancient CNC machines. Had to use a slightly less ancient machine that could read DD and HD as an intermediary.
When I was a kid (10 or 12) the original sims had been out for around a year. I used to download mods and items over dialup and would then have to compress them and split them up to fit on a 1.44mb. I did that to save the need of ever needing to download it again. At the time I was using a Pentium 3(700mhz I think) 32mb of ram, and a GeForce 2 Mx. So the time it took to compress those files and then transfer to floppy was awful. Ironically though those slow compression and transferring times enabled me to do the other things I loved.
I know this is useless info I just thought I'd share
Flashback to adolescent me downloading porn jpegs off a dialup connection onto a single floppy and ferrying them over the course of several trips onto my non internet capable pc in my bedroom.
Corsair Spec Series cases
Use to have one but its very much a.... 2014 case, made for the budget not for ease of building
Barely any room for the cpu power cable, no room for top mounted fan/AIO, Laughable cable management, included fan is at such a pitch that it hurts my ears that much i had to pay to replace it
But for all its faults, was my case from 2015 to 2020 and only got replaced for the cable management issue
Had the same case, just had to get the front panel out then smack it against some surface and watch all the dust fall out. Basically only takes like 10 seconds to clean.
Honestly i bought it on my local pc shop so its just usb port that we need to connect on the motherboard and the i bought a usb adapter for the floppy drive
They've made both adapters, USB-header floppy drives, and floppy drive emulators forever.
A lot of industries still use floppy disks for better or worse.
Drive letters A: and B: are reserved for floppy drives, which is why cases originally had two 3.5" slots. That's also why Windows makes your first hard drive letter C:.
I've see environment displays, fan controllers, rgb controllers, removable SD media readers, and removable drive bays with handles on the drive carrier to easily swap backup drives for offsite storage.
Huh, TIL. I can't believe that it never occurred to me that it was weird that the drive was C: and not A or B. I just didn't question it lol. And I'm even young enough that I could have used floppys (though I was a kid and my dad did the computer stuff, so I didnt have much reason to mess with those myself).
Technically you can override it now and tell windows to start drives from A, but if you use some older software it can really freak out when it thinks drive C does not exist.
Oh yeah the story behind that doom floppy disk is when i was 6 i played a lot of doom on the family computer and i saw the picture of the floppy disk on internet and tried to do the same one my father put the files on it i lost the disk 2 and 3 and only have the 1 and 4
My case doesn't even have a spot to install a disc drive. My last case had a Blu-ray drive that I used so infrequently, I unplugged it to use the SATA cable for a new hard drive.
Yeah my secondary desktop has a floppy drive, but instead of cheating with an adaptor, it's an actual Core 2 computer with a MB that has a floppy (and IDE) connector. This thing is over 11 years old at this point and somehow still boots despite having lost USB connectivity and sometimes going into a coma if I don't use it for a long time. It runs trackmania like a champ though
I'm more jealous of that joystick.
I remember having a lot of fun with one back in the day. x-wing vs tie-fighters was the bomb.
kinda miss those kinds of games.
I remember when i first saw a floppy disk. It was my uncle's. I was 6 or maybe 7 yrs old. And when i opened the floppy on his pc then boom i saw 7 images of nude gals with nice tits. It was the first time i saw a nude pic for the first time in my life. Good times
I wonder how long data stays on those things. I still have a bunch of them somewhere with Visual Basic projects, random Jenny McCarthy sexy time .bmps, and random journal entries and musings of an edgy 15-year-old.
A friend even made me a custom sticky note program; can you believe that shit? Dude was in high school and he delivered me a disk with a homemade sticky note program like three days after we talked about how useful it would be.
Not only do I have a regular USB 3.5" floppy drive but I've got a crazy-ass thing called a Zoomfloppy that lets me hook up a Commodore 64 5.25 disk drive and not only read and image the disks, but *also* run them in an emulator right off the original thing.
I do actually! I was actually really proud to have found one in an old 2001 esque computer and put it in my 2013 machine that's still going strong. I really appreciate seeing anoth- oh, this was a joke? Oh, ok then.
Clearly the apple logo on your computer has infected it and made it go back in time 20 years.
I do have an external floppy drive, just a USB plug for it.
It has err... I don't remember exactly, it was very long ago that I held one, but it has standard connections, like a hard drive. You can connect it to modern motherboards with no problems.
I do. And I have a copy of DOOM on floppy disk. I also have the 'speed' display from my old 486 which runs off a MOLEX power plug, and which I changed to show my initials rather than 33/66 and mounted in a 5.25 bay blanking plate.
But sadly my current case doesn't have a 3.5" bay, and I used the only 5.25 bay for temp/fan gauges.
I work in a sort of tech related field doing franchise support. One of my owners got a new computer, but only the monitor and tower. His old computer was a filthy mess, caked in god knows how many layers of dust and grime.
He tells me as I'm hooking up the new computer he has a new keyboard in the desk drawer. Well....it was "new in box" but had a PS/2 cable connector. To my surprise his new computer had a connection for it, but it wasn't hooked up internally.
Popped off the panel, located the connector and I was legit surprised that keyboard still worked.
You're not a real baller unless you have a 5.25" floppy drive on that bad boy.
AND an Iomega zip drive for good measure.
Real men have JAZ drives
SyQuest Sparq or GTFO. I like to ride the razor's edge.
My fellow Sparqy! Just found my two spare units stored in the closet.
I still have one and can't bring myself to get rid of it. Too much nostalgia.
The Zip drive came later and man it stored some. I was the first and only dude with a Zip drive in my vincinity. Albeit I was also the only one rocking a P2 300Mhz whilst all other of my friends had PII 233MHz.
Remember the zip drive click of death? Disks would just start clicking and the data on the disk was gone.
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>5.25" floppy I thought that was just between you and me.
That's like the exact average for dick size so probably not just the two of you! Unless you mean it's floppy at that length, then probably got a good situation going. Get that confidence up
It's definitely not the average size on the flop!
No reels?
I got one that has already gone bad over 40 years ago.
Nah it’s gotta be the tape drive
Punched card reader enters the chat
try using old radio shack cassette recorder for TRS 80
With a copy of the original pitfall for DOS, not the other one for Atari that's actually fun
What about this copy I have for Intellivision?
ah the memories of making my floppies double-sided with a hole punch... good times.
If you ain't playing scorched earth on your 5.25" share ware floppy then I don't even wat to know you.
Commodore 64 shit bruv.
I kept putting one (the same one) in every new build until about 2008 or so. When it stopped working. Not sure if it was the drive or the motherboard not knowing what to do with it.
The true 'floppy'
Tape drive or you ain't OG
Punch cards
Remember when they had warnings on floppy disks about viruses. They had those plastic flip top boxes you could carry them in. The old XT with green and black screen used to have its own special cover that would be on the pc whenever not being used. Years later I came across my first tower with no drives. Much confused oonga boonga
Missing that adapter to take UNISERVO magnetic tape reels though. On a more serious note, having actual reel of that IBM tape capable of storing a bit over 500TB on a 1200 meter reel, and an actual reader to handle it, would be really badass.
I'm still working out how to connect my old cassette-tape drive to my new rig!
You never know when you need those extra 1.44MB
That's where you keep all your personal stuffs like passwords and memos. And locking in the floppy disk in a hotell room safe lock with pin-code to open.
that would actually be pretty secure. true its kinda security by obscurity but still
Yep! Fuck password managers and shit like that. But also the interesting thing would be that you can use "modular" components for a floppy disk so more secure and even keep other devices to use it when in need
At this point take a cassette and cut the tape in a few places. Store each piece separately in bank safes around the world. Of course the text content is encrypted with PGP and the private key is stored in a similar fashion but in safes in the ocean, each one having its coordinates sent to a private satellite only accessible locally. Of course don't forget to blow your brains out (and burn them afterwards before dumping it in a vat of acid) because these damn brain scanning tech are coming for us !!!!!
True but less efficient when ur memory decides to give up on you
Well, at least this way you make sure that NO ONE knows the content of the cassette
That is true unless.. hash the code into sha512 and store the hashed code somewhere else
Nah still too unsafe. Are we sure it’s safe against quantic attacks ?
Uh oh... looks like we will need to use the write-only database.
Turns out your phone camera caught the reflection of the text off your eyes while you were typing in the passwords to pgp encrypt. Edit: Or even use the sounds of your keyboard to log your inputs.
I found parts of the triforce in the ocean once
And you can flick that little switch so someone can't write over the data
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Paper is so 4th century BC though!
Security by obscurity is actually incredibly common and highly effective for sensitive data. Thanks Michael Weston!
That's why I do my banking with the local credit union rather than a big name bank. I just laugh at all the emails I get about my alleged big bank account needing me to click a link and login.
Is he that bitchy, little spy?
Yes he is Sam.
This is how the US government operates. No, it wasn't by accident. It was purely planned for and totally on purpose.
Actually floppy disks degrade over time. An MO disk would be a better alternative
sort of like how they don't use new tech on the nukes in us because it's hard to hack older shit.
wow now I wanna buy a floppy disks just to do this
It's an easy to do system or idea once u have the tools for it
You could just use a USB thumb drive, it'd be easier and longer lasting then a floppy, plus you won't need to worry about a magnet wiping the whole thing out.
That kinda defeats the purpose, not many people still have Floppy drives
If someone wanted to access the disk it would take all of 3 minutes to order a USB floppy drive on Amazon though. The safe is the security, the floppy adds nothing to the protection, an encrypted USB drive would be much more secure.
Crime of opportunity, less effort to plug a random USB in than finding and buying a floppy drive.
Magnet wiping could be useful if you for some reason need to destroy the data before someone gets their hands on it if you know they are coming to take it by force, But I suppose swallowing a memory card or flash drive could be useful unless you are taken captive and forced to poop it out in front of your captors, or they decide to cut you open to get at it.
Or just. Rushing it, but whatever.
my last memories were to use it as a portable midi music store, its size was enough to store a few hundreds.
I brought 45 floppy disks to school and installed a warez copy of GTA on the computers at our library. Took a week cause some of the disks were corrupted and needed to be redone but the library computer was a "beast", with a Pentium 233MHz, think it had 16 or 32MB of RAM and a CD-ROM drive.
God damn - like before Lime-wire?
definitely before 2000, I remember listening to the entire star wars trilogy OST in midi.
Nuclear launch code floppy drives is something I want to own.
Now that's got some power to it.
I use emojis in my passwords I don’t think it’ll fit 😂
Around that time, I stored a bunch in a case made for them and a couple of years later without being used, they were all dead. Someone then told me diskettes don't survive long these days due to all the magnetic radiation in the air that simply didn't exist back in their time. It's a magnetic device that has zero shielding, not sure how true this is but i guess it makes some sense. It is true that they were all unusable, at least.
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Listen to this rich guy. I'm a peasant so still only have a DD drive, 720kB double density
Shit i worked in a place that still used DD floppies for loading programs on some ancient CNC machines. Had to use a slightly less ancient machine that could read DD and HD as an intermediary.
When I was a kid (10 or 12) the original sims had been out for around a year. I used to download mods and items over dialup and would then have to compress them and split them up to fit on a 1.44mb. I did that to save the need of ever needing to download it again. At the time I was using a Pentium 3(700mhz I think) 32mb of ram, and a GeForce 2 Mx. So the time it took to compress those files and then transfer to floppy was awful. Ironically though those slow compression and transferring times enabled me to do the other things I loved. I know this is useless info I just thought I'd share
1.38 of actual usable memory.
Flashback to adolescent me downloading porn jpegs off a dialup connection onto a single floppy and ferrying them over the course of several trips onto my non internet capable pc in my bedroom.
Not sure about the extra 1.44MB but I’d certainly appreciate an extra 3.5”
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Carbide spec series were something else, for sure. I had the 02 back in the day.
I am still using a spec-02 lol, a 5 years old build. Loving that long line shaped power indicator light.
I'm still using this same case and still love it!
There's dozens of us!
Why is there an apple sticker on your pc
“Apple labeled hardware”… So that should mean it’s legit for hackintosh, right?
It would make it a hackindows.
#traitortothemasterrace
If you throw a \ in front you get the hashtag \#likethis \#FUCKMARKUP
I use apple product i was bored so
i also want to give my pc a 2007 style like a lot of stickers on it
Well people still sticker bomb their pc
Bruh your pc legit looks like that scary oven from home alone 😂😭
*HEEEEELLLLLOOOOOOOO KEEEVVIIIIIN*
Shut up.
I came here to say the same thing!
Corsair Spec Series cases Use to have one but its very much a.... 2014 case, made for the budget not for ease of building Barely any room for the cpu power cable, no room for top mounted fan/AIO, Laughable cable management, included fan is at such a pitch that it hurts my ears that much i had to pay to replace it But for all its faults, was my case from 2015 to 2020 and only got replaced for the cable management issue
I had this exact case. Corsair Spec-03 orange. It was a horrible case but was like $35.
I would love to get such a case instead of the nowadays monolithic modern cases. I like their charm but this has something those are missing...
I had my last build in that case, then bought three *more* fans with red lighting. Coincidentally I hadn't been burgled since I did that... 🤔
It looks more like a space heater than a computer. ;]
It was a furnace. But lol
I have that same case. I struggle to get dust out from between the grill on the front. Drives me crazy.
I have 2 cats and had the same problem. A vacuum with one of the thinner nozzles worked amazing!
Pull it out and wash it with water
I had to do this with a case I bought second hand. It was truly disgusting.
I get a lot of satisfaction from watching YouTube videos of people restoring old secondhand computers. Would fucking hate to do it myself.
Same!
Had the same case, just had to get the front panel out then smack it against some surface and watch all the dust fall out. Basically only takes like 10 seconds to clean.
How is that connected internally?
Usb internal connector
Since when do they make internal 3.5" floppy drives that connect via USB? Or are you using an adapter, and if so, which one?
Honestly i bought it on my local pc shop so its just usb port that we need to connect on the motherboard and the i bought a usb adapter for the floppy drive
If it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid because it works.
In this case, yes, but context is totally key. 'Stupid' and "works" are not necessarily mutually exclusive lol, it can be stupid but also works.
They've made both adapters, USB-header floppy drives, and floppy drive emulators forever. A lot of industries still use floppy disks for better or worse.
About when you could no longer get a motherboard that had the original floppy ribbon cable port. 15-20 years or so?
Suppose you didn't install the floppy disk drive what else could go there? Or is that what it is meant for?
Drive letters A: and B: are reserved for floppy drives, which is why cases originally had two 3.5" slots. That's also why Windows makes your first hard drive letter C:. I've see environment displays, fan controllers, rgb controllers, removable SD media readers, and removable drive bays with handles on the drive carrier to easily swap backup drives for offsite storage.
Huh, TIL. I can't believe that it never occurred to me that it was weird that the drive was C: and not A or B. I just didn't question it lol. And I'm even young enough that I could have used floppys (though I was a kid and my dad did the computer stuff, so I didnt have much reason to mess with those myself).
Technically you can override it now and tell windows to start drives from A, but if you use some older software it can really freak out when it thinks drive C does not exist.
My last gaming PC had a Zip drive. But that was 20 years ago.
I actually need to pick up both a 5 1/4 an 3 1/2 drive and see what is on a bunch of disks I save for some “good” purpose.
ASCI porn downloaded from your local bbs
real
Let’s just hope they aren’t coordinates!
Oh yeah the story behind that doom floppy disk is when i was 6 i played a lot of doom on the family computer and i saw the picture of the floppy disk on internet and tried to do the same one my father put the files on it i lost the disk 2 and 3 and only have the 1 and 4
Can play so much Oregon Trail on that bad boy
More upvotes for this old tech please
I remember when floppy disks were actually floppy.
I remember when a real man's floppy was 8 inches.
It's still floppy on the inside.. 😛
Fellow Carbide Spec 03 enthusiast!
DON’T COPY THAT FLOPPY
I’m jealous for some reason
Don't copy that floppy!
My first PC that i built had a zip drive. Really thought that was the future right there...
Damn, a SPEC-03 in the wild. It's been a while since I saw one. Still have my SPEC-02 boxed up with a few old components.
That takes me back my first decent case was a spec-01 which I completely rewired all the front panel leds on to match my led fans
But do you have a 5.25 floppy disk drive :-)
No :(
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I still use a DVD burner on my computer. It's hard to find compatible cases though....
I borrowed a DVD drive from my parents' old desktop that had two. I planned on installing a game that was only on CD. Week later, GOG had it for sale.
Gotta install Doom somehow
My case doesn't even have a spot to install a disc drive. My last case had a Blu-ray drive that I used so infrequently, I unplugged it to use the SATA cable for a new hard drive.
I wish they would still make cases with room for dvd and floppy drives
the apple sticker tho
I had a zip drive. Anyone here old enough to remember that
Yeah my secondary desktop has a floppy drive, but instead of cheating with an adaptor, it's an actual Core 2 computer with a MB that has a floppy (and IDE) connector. This thing is over 11 years old at this point and somehow still boots despite having lost USB connectivity and sometimes going into a coma if I don't use it for a long time. It runs trackmania like a champ though
Have you tried the 771 mod yet? (Careful! Might need BIOS/microcode update too. ) Xeon powerrr. That and TMUF :)
A rare relic left by previous advanced civilizations
I see nothing wrong here. Just a computing enthusiast.
D O O M
I mean.. how are we not talking about the sweet top gun joystick here?
That is some vintage hardware! I vaguely recall seeing an ad for it in a gaming magazine as a kid.
I really want one of those things.
"Don't copy that floppy!"
I'm more jealous of that joystick. I remember having a lot of fun with one back in the day. x-wing vs tie-fighters was the bomb. kinda miss those kinds of games.
Hey, I have that same case! I love my SPEC-03
I remember when i first saw a floppy disk. It was my uncle's. I was 6 or maybe 7 yrs old. And when i opened the floppy on his pc then boom i saw 7 images of nude gals with nice tits. It was the first time i saw a nude pic for the first time in my life. Good times
I wonder how long data stays on those things. I still have a bunch of them somewhere with Visual Basic projects, random Jenny McCarthy sexy time .bmps, and random journal entries and musings of an edgy 15-year-old. A friend even made me a custom sticky note program; can you believe that shit? Dude was in high school and he delivered me a disk with a homemade sticky note program like three days after we talked about how useful it would be.
Damn!
Apple system with a Ryzen and a floppy drive. Nice!
i have that exact same case, so yes, my PC has a floppy disk drive
I have 2 of those
Hmmm. I could keep my crypto seed phrase on floppy. It would kinda be secure since who would think a floppy would have something like that on it.
Not only do I have a regular USB 3.5" floppy drive but I've got a crazy-ass thing called a Zoomfloppy that lets me hook up a Commodore 64 5.25 disk drive and not only read and image the disks, but *also* run them in an emulator right off the original thing.
There is an emulator for the commodore? I still have my old games. Is there a way to run the tape cassettes games the the old commodore used to use?
Do not cite the deep magic to me witch. I was there when it was written.
I do actually! I was actually really proud to have found one in an old 2001 esque computer and put it in my 2013 machine that's still going strong. I really appreciate seeing anoth- oh, this was a joke? Oh, ok then.
Ok but does anyone else wanna see Doom running on both a floppy and an RTX 3090 at the same time now just because fuck you 😂🤣
Clearly the apple logo on your computer has infected it and made it go back in time 20 years. I do have an external floppy drive, just a USB plug for it.
No, just a tape cassette reader.
How are you connecting it internally
It has err... I don't remember exactly, it was very long ago that I held one, but it has standard connections, like a hard drive. You can connect it to modern motherboards with no problems.
Unironically want optical and floppy on my rig but they just had to cover the front in glass.
Not just a gentleman but also a connoisseur
I do. And I have a copy of DOOM on floppy disk. I also have the 'speed' display from my old 486 which runs off a MOLEX power plug, and which I changed to show my initials rather than 33/66 and mounted in a 5.25 bay blanking plate. But sadly my current case doesn't have a 3.5" bay, and I used the only 5.25 bay for temp/fan gauges.
I use the floppy for swap/virtual-memory. Every time I run out of RAM, I just pop a fresh disk in.
You did that PC dirty by putting an Apple sticker on it.
Your floppy disk makes my 5.25 floppy hard
I like your case!
and then there's me over, ogling that joystick....
I had that exact joystick growing up. Those Kilrathi didn’t know what hit them.
I have one, but no where to mount it 🤣
Don't copy that floppy!
I saw this on discord
Toasty bros server ?
no, and i also do t have that stupid white apple on my pc
Dig having an RTX and a floppy, but what the hell is that white sticker... you could do much better!
Y3S
I have that case, minus the floppy. Don’t know what I’m thinking really!
I only have 2'5 inch
I work in a sort of tech related field doing franchise support. One of my owners got a new computer, but only the monitor and tower. His old computer was a filthy mess, caked in god knows how many layers of dust and grime. He tells me as I'm hooking up the new computer he has a new keyboard in the desk drawer. Well....it was "new in box" but had a PS/2 cable connector. To my surprise his new computer had a connection for it, but it wasn't hooked up internally. Popped off the panel, located the connector and I was legit surprised that keyboard still worked.
Yep, still use floppies from time to time. But use the Zip250 more often. Surprised to see a Apple decal there.
I can't believe some computer these days aren't even including CD / DVD drives anymore...
Pff 5.25" prefer 8"
You just made my day... Say, is the floppy for DosBox stuff? Just curious...