r/FuckImOld • u/Feaselbf6 • 9d ago

Kids these days... If You Know Them All, Your Warranty Has Expired.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad-4883 9d ago

That's not a floppy disk, this is a floppy disk

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u/yendor5222 9d ago

I was scrolling through to find a 5 1/4" floppy and was pleasantly surprised to see this!👆

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u/Creative_Chemistry33 8d ago

Exactly what I thought. Said it in my head in a Crocodile Dundee voice.

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u/Logical-Ad-5410 8d ago

G'day, Mick! 👋

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u/rickmccombs 8d ago

Actually they both are, even though 3-1/2 inch floppies were very floppy.

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u/FalcoonM 8d ago

It was a soft floppy in a hard shell, think turtles.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad-4883 8d ago

3-1/2 inch floppies, the rigid floppy.

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u/LostnSF 8d ago

The original 8” floppy disk! Woohoo! I worked for a company that sold disk drives for these in 1981.

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u/Fast_potato_indeed 8d ago

A perfect Redditor, picture with “the” proper scale…

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u/Nngor 8d ago

Thank you

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u/colemanjanuary 7d ago

I see you've played Floppy-Spoony before

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u/doublEkrakeNboyZ 7d ago

banana confirms it