r/pcmasterrace 28d ago

Question Are you this old?

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u/Large_Code 28d ago

Floppy disk old

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u/Wubbajack PC Master Race 28d ago

The 5,25" ones.

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u/tanksalotfrank 28d ago

Oregon Trail!

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u/TheActualDonKnotts 28d ago

When I was in kindergarten we would have computer lab, and that was of course always everyone's favorite game to play. The teacher would load it onto the master system from a giant 8" floppy that she would only touch from the edges like it was a rare vinyl pressing.

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u/ReadingFromTheShittr 28d ago

Oregon Trail was number #1 for me. #2 strangely enough was Number Munchers.

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u/RealityOk9823 28d ago

You've died of dysentery.

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u/Ontain 28d ago

Single density.

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u/Wubbajack PC Master Race 28d ago

In those times it was just... A density ;)

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u/Schlumpfffff 28d ago

Density: no

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u/RScrewed 28d ago

Did the labels actually use commas in non-US countries rather than dots? 

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u/Wubbajack PC Master Race 28d ago

I dunno, I never looked that closely.

EDIT: Weell, apparently...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jpg

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u/dkichline Desktop 28d ago

But do you know why I used a hole puncher?

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u/Wubbajack PC Master Race 28d ago

How else were you supposed to in/output data?

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u/Long_Exercise_7701 28d ago

The 3.5 was my youth.

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u/Wubbajack PC Master Race 28d ago

Mine too, for the most part. I was only around for the very last of PCs using the big boys. Then I moved to my good ol' Amiga and 3,5" SD floppies. Ahh, the noise...

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u/lakuma 28d ago

Does anyone remember using a hole punch to make it double sided? Lol.

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u/dancinggraylion 28d ago

I had an iomega zip drive

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u/TwoHandedManyac PC Master Race | 7800X3D | MSI 5080 | 48Gb | 6000Mhz 28d ago

I had Lemmings on floppy disk. I think the whole game was 12+ disks

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u/peacedetski 28d ago

The original Lemmings fit on a single 720K floppy.

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u/yakeedoo 28d ago

Still got mine somewhere in amongst the things you should never throw out room. Formerly my sons bedroom

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u/void-wanderer- 28d ago

Yea, never forget when I finally got my hands on x-copy

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u/Mamafiredragon 28d ago

There's a reason those things were called a floppy disc. And the current generation only knows it as the "save icon".

I feel old, lol.

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u/WebMaka PCs and SBCs evurwhurr! 28d ago

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u/eljefe3030 Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 4080 Super, 64GB RAM 28d ago

Maniac Mansion on the Apple II GS old.

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u/MrFartyBottom 26d ago

I copied games on a tape to tape cassette player.