LGR - Floppy Disks
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Daniel
oh yes, as a kid the most vivid thing about early computer experiences, was the sounds that machines made, namely, the disk drives reading disk, and oh boy, the sound of read errors. i think these early experiences is what I get back when using older machines, and the best for me is using a word processor in mono-tasking (Ms-Dos, no distractions) and saving on disk and hearing it read and save as you progress throughout the work day. the best format is 5 1/4 inch 360k disk drives, which I find very reliable. My favorite are the mitsubishi drives, such quality builds.
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oh yes, as a kid the most vivid thing about early computer experiences, was the sounds that machines made, namely, the disk drives reading disk, and oh boy, the sound of read errors. i think these early experiences is what I get back when using older machines, and the best for me is using a word processor in mono-tasking (Ms-Dos, no distractions) and saving on disk and hearing it read and save as you progress throughout the work day. the best format is 5 1/4 inch 360k disk drives, which I find very reliable. My favorite are the mitsubishi drives, such quality builds.
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MechaGodJovi
I honestly wish I kept all my Floppy Disks, I have some but most of them are in storage but don't recall what games or software they were since it's been so long since I looked at them. I know 3 of them are Daemonsgate disks at least though, good times.
I do have 3 I keep on hand to keep valuable information on, I mean if I lose them chances are of anyone actually looking at them or having the hardware to do so around here are slim which gives me plenty of time anyway to change passwords etc lol.
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I honestly wish I kept all my Floppy Disks, I have some but most of them are in storage but don't recall what games or software they were since it's been so long since I looked at them. I know 3 of them are Daemonsgate disks at least though, good times.
I do have 3 I keep on hand to keep valuable information on, I mean if I lose them chances are of anyone actually looking at them or having the hardware to do so around here are slim which gives me plenty of time anyway to change passwords etc lol.
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revenile
The importance of the Floppy Disk to me cannot be overstated. Having grown up on C64 and Amiga as a kid, floppy drives where how I played basically every game until the mid 90s when we got a Windows PC. It's the reason why despite only being able to emulate those two fantastic machines now I make sure the drive sound emulation is enabled because it just doesn't feel right waiting for an Amiga game to load without the loud buzzing of the A500 disk drive.
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The importance of the Floppy Disk to me cannot be overstated. Having grown up on C64 and Amiga as a kid, floppy drives where how I played basically every game until the mid 90s when we got a Windows PC. It's the reason why despite only being able to emulate those two fantastic machines now I make sure the drive sound emulation is enabled because it just doesn't feel right waiting for an Amiga game to load without the loud buzzing of the A500 disk drive.
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LegoTekFan486
There's more with these kinds of drives that COULD be repaired with proper knowledge. More through hole electronic components, and it's rare the electronics fail in the first place: It's more likely to be a dirty head, a bad belt or such. And, if the electronics DO fail, there are more chips that have datasheets available and fewer (but probably at least one) custom chip(s)
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There's more with these kinds of drives that COULD be repaired with proper knowledge. More through hole electronic components, and it's rare the electronics fail in the first place: It's more likely to be a dirty head, a bad belt or such. And, if the electronics DO fail, there are more chips that have datasheets available and fewer (but probably at least one) custom chip(s)
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fattomandeibu
That's a great video. I don't have the same attachment to floppies, maybe due to growing up using a C64 with tape drive, with my only real floppy usage being on Amiga, and the vast majority of that phase being taken over by game consoles until '98 or so. I'd probably feel the same way about tapes if they weren't so slow and fiddly(head alignment etc.
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That's a great video. I don't have the same attachment to floppies, maybe due to growing up using a C64 with tape drive, with my only real floppy usage being on Amiga, and the vast majority of that phase being taken over by game consoles until '98 or so. I'd probably feel the same way about tapes if they weren't so slow and fiddly(head alignment etc.
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Nardalis
You say these floppy disks were mostly used in the 80-90s. how strange. Because I had a PC whose BIOS was from 2008, and when this PC ran into some startup issues which led to that I had to change the battery often, it always wanted to access the floppy disk which seemed to be some default thingy. My PC only had a CD-Drive, not a Floppy-Drive xD
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You say these floppy disks were mostly used in the 80-90s. how strange. Because I had a PC whose BIOS was from 2008, and when this PC ran into some startup issues which led to that I had to change the battery often, it always wanted to access the floppy disk which seemed to be some default thingy. My PC only had a CD-Drive, not a Floppy-Drive xD
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Rcamer2007
I remember my dad giving me a floppy disk to save my Rollercoaster Tycoon save data. I didn't understand why at the time, but once I started learning about legacy tech compared to my gaming rig now, I can understand why.
1 terabyte hard drives weren't a thing back than, that and our family PC only had 5 gigs.
Technology is special.
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I remember my dad giving me a floppy disk to save my Rollercoaster Tycoon save data. I didn't understand why at the time, but once I started learning about legacy tech compared to my gaming rig now, I can understand why.
1 terabyte hard drives weren't a thing back than, that and our family PC only had 5 gigs.
Technology is special.
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Troy
Still have and love my floppy drive. I put an internal one in my Core i7 system but until recently, couldn't find a way to connect it. Thankfully, an adapter from china worked by converting the floppy connector to USB and the cable ran outside to a USB port. Basically shows it as an external Floppy, but really an internal one. Works great now.
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Still have and love my floppy drive. I put an internal one in my Core i7 system but until recently, couldn't find a way to connect it. Thankfully, an adapter from china worked by converting the floppy connector to USB and the cable ran outside to a USB port. Basically shows it as an external Floppy, but really an internal one. Works great now.
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MetalTrabant
I've just found almost a whole box of TDK floppies next to the trash. the same kind I've been using about 17 years ago to transfer pictures home from the internet club where I had to go to browse the web. Not sure what I'm gonna do with them, only my old computer has a floppy drive, but that hasn't been booted up in like 5 years.
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I've just found almost a whole box of TDK floppies next to the trash. the same kind I've been using about 17 years ago to transfer pictures home from the internet club where I had to go to browse the web. Not sure what I'm gonna do with them, only my old computer has a floppy drive, but that hasn't been booted up in like 5 years.
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