I feel ancient

[IrfanL]

Look what I found :D

[MrChainsaw]

Floppy disks, what?

The last time I saw one was 10 years ago.

[Growled Member]

Wow Animal, those are ancient. Were those used on Windows 3.1?

[KamiQuazi]

I had a copy of Windows 3.1 on the 3?. Actually looked like these that are on eBay.

Windows 3.1 eBay Posting

[Fred Derf Veteran]

1.44MB, so much space!

Do you remember the weird formats that would allow 1.79MB (or more) on a 1.44MB disk?

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Do you remember the weird formats that would allow 1.79MB (or more) on a 1.44MB disk?

I do. Remember this handy little DOS program which let you copy all kinds of weird floppy formats?

[-Himanshu-]

When I built a new computer last year, I didn't attach the floppy drive. Then I broke open all the floppies and played with the "magnet disk" as frisbee(I was able to easily throw them to ~40 feets by spinning). :laugh:

[macf13nd]

what about for RAID controllers? That's the last time I used one (6 months ago)?

[techbeck]

WE still use floppys with Ghost for PC's in our lab :p

used to use floppies for ghosting...now I use a USB flash drive or a CD.

bootdisk.com :)

[Ce.]

I haven't even seen floppies in stores for at least 5 years

I wonder if floppies one day will be a hot commodity... sell on ebay for bank LOL.

[thejohnnyq]

I still have several 8" floppy disk, (for Tandy Model 2), and a ton of Single Sided 5.25 disk for my working Tandy Model 4. 160 KB per disk, 180 KB if I hack the format, many double notched so i can use both sides.

[Rob2687]

Anyone remember Zip Drives? Those things were unreliable as hell.

[IrfanL]

I do. Remember this handy little DOS program which let you copy all kinds of weird floppy formats?

As you can see from the software image it all have to do with single-head/double-head and number of sectors that can be created of the disk. There was also something related to high-density diskette I dont remember properly now.