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I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.
Floppy disks are a way to install linux on your microwave try a distro like arch linux it's microwave safe
manually etch the bits yourself. Just use a hammer and chisel
Put all your precious documents on the disks and then rub a magnet on each one of them to make sure they are properly energized. The stronger the magnet the better.
Insert them into your urethra!
Insert them into John McAfee's urethra!
Coasters for a DnD night!
But this is a good answer!
Why would anyone bother making 1.4 MB diaks
Start a porn collection of high quality pictures. Be sure to zip span them across all disks⦠all 1 photo
When Windows 95 was still sold on floppy, it came on 25 fucking floppies in the box.
So I say put Windows 38 on them.
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Split up something like Puppy or Damn Small Linux across them all.
Build a PC with 15-20 floppy drives and insert and mount them all.
Boot Linux off of all the floppies.
Build a PC with 15-20 floppy drives and insert and mount them all.
10 floppy drive raid, please. don't want to lose that critical data
This!
Get a few suitcases at Goodwill or something, stick a floppy and some 'redacted' papers in a red envelope, leave them in random places around town and observe what happens. Make sure to wear a trench coat and sunglasses when you 'forget' them at each drop point.
You could use them as a memory card for ps1 games.
see how many of them it takes to hold a single 4K image
That's just over 8MP.
You could easily store a 4K Image on a floppy in half-way decent quality, two with visible jpeg artifacts.
TDK's revenue has been increasing steadily at least starting from 2010. When was the last time you bought a TDK product?
You probably have one of their chips or components in your computer, phone, tv, charger brick, etc.
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don't run Doom with them
DO IT, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO
Boof them. Don't think about it, just boof em.
Mount nine of them on a square board so that they're all focused on a single point for a mild solar furnace.
Use the last one to look at yourself, the proud owner of a mild solar furnace.
Youβ¦ donβt know what a floppy disk is, do you?
I do, I just don't pay careful attention to details and just run with what I think things are saying.
My first computer was an Atari 520ST. No hard drive (its OS ran off a chip), and every program ran off a floppy. And your storage was on a floppy.
Yeah, I know floppies. I used to have shoeboxes of them.
What kind of floppies are you thinking of? the very little metal on those discs aren't that reflective.
I was too far in the future, using CDs. Floppies, wow.
Now I'm going to have to rethink my whole thing.