Floppies?

[waveney]

When did you last use a floppy disc?

When was the last time you used a 5.25" floppy?

Did you ever use an 8" floppy?

Today I packed up all my 3.25" floppies and put them in a box in the loft.

Yesterday I threw out a box of 5.25" floppies.

(I did use 8" floppies in the distant past but never at home)

Comments

[alexmc]

> When did you last use a floppy disc?

You mean other than a beermat, right? Dont know. Basically I used them mostly for sending stuff to my accountant but I think I prefer to post them cds or email now.

> When was the last time you used a 5.25" floppy?

Dont know. Pretty long time ago - I remember the ICSF computer at college had 5.25" and that was about 1990.

> Did you ever use an 8" floppy?

No but I have some.

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I have three small bags of floppies which I have checked as containing nothing important and am ready to throw out. Even the recycling place I found which takes VHS does not take floppies. I am wondering about freecycling them. I wonder if they could be used for advertising distribution of some kind....

[julesjones]

1) Probably when I installed a new hard drive on my desktop, and used a floppy because that is what the accompanying software tools were provided on. About four years ago.

2) Before 2000, which is the last time I had routine access to a computer that had an appropriate drive. (I last saw the machine in question under your desk, because I sold it to watervole when I moved to the us.)

3) We had some lying around the office, [mumble] years ago. I may have been the person who had to go and find the last remaining drive on site in order to copy the contents onto the network storage while they were still semi-readable. Other than that, no.

I remember buying the 1GB backup tape drive for the department. It was very expensive, and a huge leap forward in being able to back up non-networked machines, allowing us to back up $LOTS of machine on a couple of tapes -- and within two years one tape per machine wasn't enough...

[cdybedahl]

The last time I used a floppy was probably about five years ago, looking through some old backups for some roleplaying documents from the early 90s.

Last time with 5.25" floppies... Probably 1995ish, loading microcode for a Pyramid machine so it could boot.

Yep, I've used 8" floppies. At home, For real. In 1993.

And for a while back in the early 80s, we had a machine at home with 8", 5.25" _and_ 3.5" inch drives on it.

[on_idle_moor]

memtest86+ on someone's oh-so-precious windows box a couple of months ago. (On all *my* boxen it sits in /boot.)

Peripherally, does anyone else think that bloody music on 'The ONE Show' sounds like a TK50 or a QIC? waaaaah-WAAAAAH-waaaaah-WAAAAAH-waaaaah-WAAAAAH... Atrocious brain rot. And the programme's *worse*.

[cobrabay]

Last time I used a floppy would have been late last year at work. We use them as boot floppies to take or restore Ghost images on fairly ancient (6-10 year old) kit. Can't recall the last time I used a 5.25" floppy, not this century.
Also used 3" and 8" floppies. Up until last year I had half a box of unformatted 8" floppy disks which I gave to a friend who collects that kind of thing, along with my remaining couple of unused 3" disks, which were still in their individual, cellophane-wrapped jewel cases.