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Okay, time to rewind. Floppy disks are still cool, right? But how do they actually work?
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Lol, I still flash my BIOS with the Floppy
I hate. Despise floppy disks.
I certainly do not look fondly upon memories of looking at a screen of this:
When the floppy drive decided that the disk was full of bad sectors again.
//It also happened more frequently because my parents were too cheap to actually *buy* floppies, so all of the ones that we had were re-purposed AOL disks.
Though floppies were only half as bad as hard disk compression software. With bad floppies, you'd lose some files. With hard disk compression, you'd lose *everything*
...I wish that I were born 10 years later so that I could have skipped that era of computing.
I would cut a notch on the other side of the disk so I could write data to the back side.
I hate. Despise floppy disks.
I certainly do not look fondly upon memories of looking at a screen of this:
Those 8 inch disks look huge. I didn't know that anything bigger than a 5 and a quarter existed. They look like something that you would use on a mainframe computer or something.
As a kid, having a data storage medium that could flex, seemed like a bad idea at the time.
I had a board recently (BIOS was small enough to fit on a floppy) that was a total PITA on wanting to boot from a USB flashdrive, had to break out ye ole USB floppy drive to flash the damn BIOS.lol i stopped doing that in the early 2000's when i figured out how to make bootable USB drives.
lol i still have a AOL beta
...I wish that I were born 10 years later so that I could have skipped that era of computing.
This wasn't by the LGR, it was by 8-bit Guy.Hey an LGR video, nice. He makes great stuff.
This wasn't by the LGR, it was by 8-bit Guy.
LGR just had a cameo in it.
lol nooo... if anything it adds to ones character. Patience, moments of Zen. Rage rising.. rising... falling... rising! 15-16 years from now I can tell my kid (who probably will be fed information directly to the brain via facebook AI) that "you know son, I used to have hair before I got my first computer"....I wish that I were born 10 years later so that I could have skipped that era of computing.