I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.
Oh no, now I’m going to have to search for an old floppy disc
crunchy but old snack
Make little finger sandwiches out of them and have a tea party.
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!
Oh, man. This brings me back to my Amiga 500 days. So slow to load, but I loved that thing. Wish I hadn’t sold it.
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.
Start a porn collection of high quality pictures. Be sure to zip span them across all disks… all 1 photo
Why would anyone bother making 1.4 MB diaks
Right.
640k ought to be enough for anybody.
Load virus on to banking system to embezzle fraction of cents on each financial operation.
OP said wrong answers only.
If fucking Citibank has one goddamn floppy drive living in a building somewhere I will shove a Frisbee down my throat until I can’t see it anymore.
Don’t forget to make up a Da Vinci virus to sink ships and blame it on hackers in case shit hits the fan.
Like in Superman 3?
Coasters for a DnD night!
But this is a good answer!
Buy a USB floppy drive for each one and then create a RAID 0 disk array. It’ll be super quick and gloriously noisy.
For anyone not familiar… That would give you 14.4 MB (1.44 MB formatted x 10) of capacity. The rated speeds for a floppy drive is 1000 kilobits per second. So if you did a Raid-0 (striped), let’s just say that gives you 10,000 kilobits per second. We convert transfer speeds to storage speeds (8 bits to 1 byte)… Means 1.25MB/s. So best case, it takes you about 11.5 seconds to do a full transfer of the 14.4MB. it actually be much slower because this is best case scenario.
So you’re saying we just need a few (hundred) dozen more disks and drives? Look out Seagate, you’ve got a zombie competitor coming.
Goodness, the noise
But when that noise is used in the right hands …
Pirate Windows 95
95 was on CD. This might be enough to pirate Doom though
sure, use arj to compress doom to your disk:
c:\games\doom\ arj a -va a:\doom.arjIt fits on 4 floppies that way is I remember correctly.
It was available on floppy. So was Win98.
Yep I had 95 on floppy. It was like 30 disks. That installation was hell, you had to sit there and swap disks for several hours.
When one of these is corrupted then it’s all for nothing lol. I mean CD Rom was so ubiquitous here by 95, 98 that this idea seems silly but I guess it existed.
It was more for upgrading 386 computers from 1992-1994 if I remember right. Or maybe we had a 486. I dunno. It was definitely pre Pentium. Back in the dark ages!
As I recall, my windows 95 CD-ROM contained a bunch of floppy-sized .cab files in a folder, so it’s entirely possible it was available as a set of floppies…
Put all your precious documents on the disks and then rub a magnet on each of them to make sure they are properly energized. The stronger the magnet the better.
Insert them into your urethra!
Forcefully insert them into your anus.
Sometimes a doubt your commitment to sparkle motion
Insert them into John McAfee’s urethra!
Hand them to zoomers as 3d printed save buttons
Sell them to zoomers as 3d save button coasters. $19.95 each
