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   SaintRCat said, about 1 month ago

   …What? Either I missed a really low-brow joke, or I forgot that this is before flash drives apparently.

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   big G 3469 said, about 1 month ago

   AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! IT’S THE ATTACK OF THE COMPUTER MONITOR HEADED NERD!!!!

   RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!

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   TheSoundDefense said, about 1 month ago

   This was a lot funnier back in the day when floppies were actually relevant. I now enjoy it for a totally different reason.

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   baslim_the_begger said, about 1 month ago

   All your floppy disk are belong to us!

   Well, the iMacs had a hard disk, but it was not very large, leading to lots of offers to make it bigger.

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   611Kwel said, about 1 month ago

   Thankfully we have moved beyond floppy disks. Flash drives are much more convenient and hold much more data. I still run into the occasional person who still puts everything onto a cd, or worse a zip drive.

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   Josh 1360 said, about 1 month ago

   I remember the iMacs, those computer monitors that came in many wonderful colors. Aw, good times, great memories.

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   pschearer said, about 1 month ago

   I’m a PC, and sometimes I wonder what treasures are hidden in my pile of unreadable 5-1/4-inch floppies. You know, the ones that would actually bend?

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   ninmas said, about 1 month ago

   i can smell sarcasm in peter’s tone.

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   cleokaya said, about 1 month ago

   sounds like a great pick up line.

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    rayannina said, about 1 month ago

    I’m up for anything that slams Apple. I even cheer when the DroidDoes commercials come on.

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    mcalisi said, about 1 month ago

    …and if you want to know something really scary, the airplane that I fly (designed in 2001, built in 2005) actually uses a 3.5” floppy drive to update its navigational database.

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    Ushindi said, about 1 month ago

    I still have a bunch of floppies with all sorts of small programs on them - had to buy a separate USB floppy drive for them, but just hate to give them up. Floppy drives disappeared, and then parallel ports went away, poor things - there’s no pity in the technical world. Also had to buy a parallel to USB adapter in order to keep my IBM Network printer.
    Now my floppy drive sits next to my 1TB external HD. “Then and now”.

    (This is starting to read like a JAD comment - I’ll quit now.)

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    thestargazer1682 said, about 1 month ago

    “I will crash the program you use in school; and any files you’ve saved from it, will be incompatible with any other computer!”

    -True story

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    Vince LoGreco said, about 1 month ago

    I still have (and use) my iMac. I have a rarely used matching usb floppy drive that sits in a box beneath the desk. I almost forgot about floppy disks.

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    RavennaAl said, about 1 month ago

    Well, there you have the difference between man and machine. A computer starts off with a floppy disc, and as time goes by you end up with a hard drive. Man starts off with a hard drive, and as time goes by, it turns into a floppy disc.

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    chinook2 said, about 1 month ago

    oh WOW… I didn’t use mac until floppy drives were long gone… I never actually used them on my windows xp before that… say, what happened to “iFruit”? I liked them exxagerating the “fun” of mac with a fruit shaped computer.

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    mrprongs said, about 1 month ago

    It looks like a football helmet from a cubist phase.

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    Johanan Rakkav said, 28 days ago

    It took me long enough, but I’ve finally purchased my own archives of 3.5” floppies into obsolescence. My two (2) laptops have USB ports, and I have several flash drives (plus USB-compatible hard drives), and a CD/DVD burner, but no place for non-floppy floppies.

    As soneone once warned me, once you get on this particular treadmill you don’t dare step off.