Well, to be fair, that's a hell of an air gap. And those things were very safe, not even the Lockpicking Lawyer can open those.
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gotta leave the key in the tower too so i could pretend to start it and drive it as a kid using my dads computer.
Still more secure than Flock's shit.
Also I had one of those... The plastic... The color...
Why lock them in a case when you could just slide the plastic square to lock the disc? Security was built right in
Sometimes it's about not wanting it stolen physically.
But then again this whole box is small enough to just carry off so I dunno.
Floppys were the ultimate in security because if you looked at them wrong they become corrupted.
I had to use floppies to bring my programming assignments to university in early 2000s. They were so unreliable, I had a rule to copy every assignment on at least 3 drives. I've asked them many times to setup an FTP, so students would not have to struggle, but they would not listen.
But the slide is so fun to fiddle with! Click clack click clack, why doesn't Commander Keen run anymore!?!
TBH I fidgeted with those slides a lot and don't recall fucking my shit up.
Same; amazing stim toys.
Stop sticking them to your fridge with a magnet
Stapling 5¼" disks to reports was another whoopsie.
If the staple is near the corner it's perfectly fine, the disc itself is round in a square sleeve. So the corners have nothing in them
One person downvoted... "Don't you DARE put a staple through a floppy disk!" Lmao
Or using a binder clip on 3.5" disks. Lost count how many times I saw that shit.
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Bad CRC for the win!
For some reason I have never seen one of those where the spare key was not attached to the primary key 🤔
That's because all of the other instances had the keys get lost and the owners had to break them open and buy new diskette cases.
You mean to tell me if you lost the keys you could just break them open? I threw away countless locked cases full of diskettes.
Break them open? You mean you actually locked the dust cover?
I just threw the keys away.
Back when shit made sense. OneDrive, eat your heart out
What kind of sense is there in storing your floppies with the shutter at the top?
the seals weren't that good so storing them facing down for long periods of time made them prone to data leaks.
It was the way of The Ancestors.
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me! I was there when it was written!
What? You want to stair at some indistinguishable grey rectangle instead of this cool mechanical flap?
There were supposed to be labels on them. That was half the fun if opening a new floppy. And a solid third of them would have been erased AOL disks.
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In the 90s, that would have been a single copy of photoshop.
Spent some time imaging a bunch of floppies from my late father last summer, and I noticed that on every single 3.5" floppy box, the keys were the same. The locks had same bitting.
...also just noticed that the single 5.25" floppy box (of Commodore 64 floppies) I have at hand that even has a lock is currently unlocked. And the key is at my parents' place. ...have to check if the key is the same as the rest when I visit the next time.
I was able to unlock those with a letter opener.
I have one still from my childhood and I never had a key. The lid flexes enough to bypass the lock.
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A year’s supply of save icons.
Mate, don’t give them ideas. The enshittifiers literally will implement “save tokens” into an app as soon as it occurs to them.
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If you've ever installed Microsoft office from floppy disks, you don't what those times back.
I remember downloading games from sketchy Warez sites on the school computers because they had a T1 line and I had dialup. They'd come in Floppy-sized segments; I'd go home each day with a stack of 10-15 floppies, copy the segment to my drive, delete it from the disk, and go back the next day to collect more. It would take weeks to get a whole game, and that's only if the warez site didn't disappear before I finished collecting parts. Then there was the butt clencher moment when I'd try to unpack the whole thing and see if it actually worked or not which, most of the time, it did not.
Those were the days.
CRC ERROR. CHECK ARCHIVE AND TRY AGAIN.
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Checkmate hackers.
Its funny cause you could pinch the back and lift the lid off of its hinges
Just like CD cases. Here in the UK you were allowed to return CD's if wasn't opened (like most items really). They put thick shiny security stickers on them. We used to buy CD's, open the cases from the hinges, burn them to my PC then return it for a full refund.
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At the same time these were in vogue, you also could require a key to start the PC itself.
What kind of psychopath stored their floppies upside down like this?
UpperEndian format, clearly.
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Fine, I'll do it:
Why the hell are the floppies in the bin with the label-side down? Nobody used these with the shutter-side up. How're you going to read the missing label when they're upside down?
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Display of wealth, 90s style
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