I was looking through a filing cabinet today and came across some floppy disks. I hadn’t seen a floppy for years and wondered what was on them.
My Dell PC remarkably has a floppy drive, so I inserted them to see what happened. Two were blank and the other contained a photo.
It’s a sign of the times these disks are now redundant and new computers rarely cater for them.
Wikipedia describes the floppy disk as “an obsolescent data storage medium that is composed of a disk of thin, flexible (“floppy”) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic shell.”
That sums it up.
They only held 1.5MB of data and this easily became corrupted.
I’ve got a 4GB flash card in my mini laptop and 2GB in my phone that are a tenth the size or less of a floppy disk.
I think Windows used to install from floppies. In fact, I’m pretty sure I had that option with Windows ME … to install from a dozen or so floppies or a CD.
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I had to go to Walgreens earlier in the school year to buy a box of floppy disks. I needed just one and it was easier to buy a box than it was run to work to get one.
I needed to copy a file to a PC running Windows 98.
What was shocking was that I couldn’t find an old floppy just laying around the house. Well, the other shocking thing was that Walgreens had some in stock.