I think in the later dying days of the floppy disk, the manufacturers made them with really poor quality. It used to be in earlier years, say the 8-bit years when floppy disks were still floppy, that the disks could keep your data for years if you treated them like vinyl records and never touched the magnetic surface.
In the late years, I’ve seen floppy disks that failed almost immediately.
Still, hard floppys was really easy to damage - fart near it, and it’s unreadable
My favorite thing was messing with the metal slider until it broke.
Fidge spinners of their time
It was that or ballpoint pens. Good thing we still have the latter since even fidget spinners seem to have disappeared
And you could make a little USS Enterprise out of the metal parts! :D
Pic? I’ve never heard of this.
I got you fam. Good news: I didn’t just imagine this, it turns out! 😁
https://methodshop.com/make-a-starship-enterprise-out-of-a-floppy-disk/
Oh, the D! Now I get it.
Thank you so much!
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Shhhck… SNAP. Shhhck… SNAP.
I think in the later dying days of the floppy disk, the manufacturers made them with really poor quality. It used to be in earlier years, say the 8-bit years when floppy disks were still floppy, that the disks could keep your data for years if you treated them like vinyl records and never touched the magnetic surface.
In the late years, I’ve seen floppy disks that failed almost immediately.
They weren’t that bad. Hell AOL mailed millions of those damn things in envelopes and they usually worked.
Tape over the read only hole and reuse it: H A C K E R M A N
I always made sure to grab a dozen of those for homework on my way out of CompUSA.