this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2025
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Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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For sharing images of vintage magazine ads, fliers, promos, etc.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 29 points 6 days ago (4 children)

lol I had many computers in the 80s. Nobody was fucking cleaning drive heads, far as I remember.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Um, I did. Had a cassette on my VIC-20 and used a tape cleaner. Later I used 3.5 floppy cleaners when reads would get funky. But huge caveat, I smoked indoors in the 90s, and that was hell on my PCs.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I guess I stand corrected. But I certainly never did. To me, OPs ad looks like a total scam.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I cleaned the head of my 1540 floppy drive.

I also used flippies.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I cleaned the head of my 1540 floppy drive.

I also used flippies.

Most of my disks were single sided. It wasn’t until I got the punch for them that they became flippies.

I did. But rarely did they work to resolve the issue I thought it was causing.

Though I still did it every now and again just to keep things nice and neat.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

I had a head cleaning floppy. Fucked up my drive real quick.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My secretary loved cleaning my drive head.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

She really didn't. She was just afraid of losing her job.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't you talk shit about my third wife.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago

Your ex-to-be is a poopie head

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There is no clean. You've only got 3 options:

Abort, Retry, Fail?_

[–] TheSilentNickel@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

Right?! lol