[Grainiary]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI

i've tried.. but i've failed

[nikolapegayyyaasss]

What is a... "floppy"?
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BLONDE ASIAN

[Dvjkefdw]

What is a... "floppy"?

Are you serious? Must be younger than I thought

[Aeaefee]

Ummm I dont make copies of floppies mmmkay...RS is my best friend and next to him is MU

[Drugmachine]

I admit, I made a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 5 MS-DOS from an original floppy to a *gasp* blank floppy.

I enjoyed every minute of it.

[LeslieMoran]

Fast forward to 2009!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6wSg...eature=related

[andrekuper]

Man, copying floppies took ages, and the sound of the copying process always made me wonder whether the drive will fall apart in the next moment or not. Did anyone ever have an original copy of an Amiga 500 game?

When I bought Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, i think it came on 736 floppy disks and when my friend wanted to copy it he payed almost as much for his empty disks, as the game itself had cost me. [rofl]

[Dvjkefdw]

Those were what we referred to as 'diskettes' - the real 'floppies' were 5 1/4" or 8" in diameter, for comparison...


and drive comparison


More here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk - quite shocking how far the technology has come in what seems just a few years if you consider DVDs and BlueRay!

[andrekuper]

The BIOS'es today still name everything that reads "disquettques" Floppy drive, so you can call them floppy disks too. The 3,5" floppies I mean.

I still remember the 5,25" floppies though, we had DOS 4.11 coming on them.

[vRmy0Fzg]

I cringed even before it started

[trettegeani]

What is a... "floppy"?

WTF? You're joking....?

Those were what we referred to as 'diskettes' - the real 'floppies' were 5 1/4" or 8" in diameter, for comparison...


and drive comparison


More here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk - quite shocking how far the technology has come in what seems just a few years if you consider DVDs and BlueRay!

The discs inside are floppy, therefore they're all "floppies". I don't know anyone who referred to them as "diskettes". Anyway they are all diskettes because "floppy disk" is short for "floppy diskette"; that's why it's spelt with a k and not a c.

[Dvjkefdw]

We called the 3 1/2" disks, 'diskettes', as they were only just coming on the market at the time - many computers only had the 5 1/4" older style disks and it was a quick way to differentiate between them. Heck, I knew of one company that still used the 8" disks.

[vekiuytyh]

I cringed even before it started

didn't need to watch it. I cringed at the thought of you cringing.

[MARMELADINA]

There must be something wrong with me, I just got bored[yawn]

[ReginaPerss]

I can remember actually typing in the coding for a game similar to Galaga and copying it to floppy and toting that around in school to play between classes. That was 1984 or 85. Old school right there.

[flopay]

There must be something wrong with me, I just got bored[yawn]

Nah nothings wrong with you,..
I had the sudden urge to punch that black guy, then wondered if that would be considered a racist move on my behalf, then i thought, s**t that guy must be like 50 now.

[trettegeani]

I can remember actually typing in the coding for a game similar to Galaga and copying it to floppy and toting that around in school to play between classes. That was 1984 or 85. Old school right there.

You mean when they used print BASIC listings in books and magazines for you to type in? I used to do that too! Didn't have a disc drive then though; it was cassette tapes!

[ReginaPerss]

You mean when they used print BASIC listings in books and magazines for you to type in? I used to do that too! Didn't have a disc drive then though; it was cassette tapes!

Yup, the ones at school had the discs and mine at home c-64 had tapes, I think we had tandy or something at school.

[trettegeani]

It was a ZX Spectrum and ZX81 I used to type in BASIC programmes for at home (the Spectrum was my brother's). They had a BBC Micro at primary school buy we hardly ever got to use it. At secondary school they had these weird computers; I think they were quite common in UK schools at the time, but I don't remember what they were called. I did go to another secondary school and there they had an RM Nimbus PC with a 3.5" disk drive.

[dushappeaps]

Fast forward to 2009!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6wSg...eature=related

Nah nothings wrong with you,..
I had the sudden urge to punch that black guy, then wondered if that would be considered a racist move on my behalf, then i thought, s**t that guy must be like 50 now.

Looks pretty good for a 50 year old though, as you can see from Cubase's link.