Poll Have you ever used a floppy disk? (708 votes)
Any kind of floppy disk will do. And by used, I mean used for its intended purpose :P
Any kind of floppy disk will do. And by used, I mean used for its intended purpose :P
I had games on floppy and I used to bring some projects into school on floppies before the days of USB sticks.
Definitely, I remember using them all the time on my parents first IBM pc that we had back in like...1994?
Back when I was a young man Floppy disks were the only thing to use to install/save things. I'm only 26 BTW.
I remember playing Fisher Price games from a floppy when I was a kid. Firehouse Rescue and School Bus Driver if I recall correctly.
Had an Apple IIc as a young'un which used 5 1/4" floppies. Had a TI/99-4A before that, but that used cartridges which are not quite floppies!
Yes, I have used floppy disks before. Not in many years, but they have been used.
To think that I used to be worried about getting a PC that didn't have a floppy disk drive.
At this point I'd say that USB sticks and external hard drives have largely replaced DVD drives on PC's as well. It's still a good idea to at least have an external DVD reader and burner laying around, but having one built in on all computers isn't really necessary these days. Everyone in my house rarely uses DVD drives.
When I was in middle school, we were required to have them for bringing data around for school reports and junk.
After I no longer needed it, I took it apart to see why it was called a floppy disk, despite feeling quite unfloppy. The innards were quite floppy indeed.
I had lemmings on floppy discs, thats about it
:D I still have my floppy version of Lemmings sitting on my desk, actually.
Of course I did, it used to be the only way to play a computer game. I even still own most of my old floppy disk based games.
I used tons of floppies way back when.
I remember using those 5.25in disks with the Apple IIe in my school's computer lab. This was in the early 90's so those machines had to be at least 10 years old by then.
I'm 22, & I used many floppies back when I was a kid. How do you think I could have played games?!
well I'm a month away from 22 but same.
When I was 4 I had a computer with an orange monochrome monitor that I had a huge stack of games on 5.25" floppies. I was devastated when my dad got rid of that computer.
I have a full install set of 3.5" floppies for Windows 95.
I actually used floppies a lot also for my music lessons like 8 years ago. At the time all the higher end electric pianos read song back tracks off of floppies. A few years later they switched to USB. My current Roland synth has USB.
Considering that around 2004-2007 USB sticks really got cheap while floppy disks really fell off (at least in North America), you would probably have to be like 12 or younger to have not encountered a floppy disk whatsoever.
But yeah, I'm in my mid twenties, and the only software I ever got on a floppy was small programs that were barely games that generally came for free with a toy or something. Really just used floppies to transfer homework to and from school computers.
I used to love buying PC games in the early 90s that were on floppy disc. It's funny how now we look at multiple discs with some sense of abhorrent annoyance, but back then, multiple discs was almost a measure of quality.
"Dude, Doom II is on four floppies..."
"Noooooo way."
Like, sexually?
5 3/4, girl.. ;
I grew up on Mortal Kombat and Doom, on floppy. Hell yea.
Yeah, back when having a built-in DVD drive on a computer was considered a luxury. God damn, I'm 21 but I've never felt so god damn old.
@everyones_a_critic: Wow...now I feel older. DVD drive on a computer? I was older than you are now when that happened....for reference, I worked IT in college. The IT Department got in a 1X CD-R drive my sophomore year - it was new tech and the only burner on campus.
This only applies to 8" and 5.25" floppies, I assume. If you voted 'yes' and are thinking that a 3.5" diskette counts, get on right outta here.
@spacerunaway: You win, sir! I don't think I've ever used an 8" floppy...my earliest memories are of 5.25s.
My first computer was a Leading Edge 33Mhz 486 DX. It had a 120MB hard drive, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy. No sound card, no CD drive. and 4 MB of ram. I paid $1,200 I think. Within 6 months I spent another grand adding a Soundblaster 16 Kit(soundcard, CD drive and speakers); new video card, larger hard drive, some CACHE ram on the motherboard, and a 486 DX2 66MHz processor. I still had the processor until a few months ago, when I decided to stop hoarding this crap. I still have the receipt. $286 dollars for a DX2. LOL
the good ole days... floppy drives.
I remember using tape drives and before that punch cards. But that was just older stuff my dad had. 5 and a quarter was my bread and butter.
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