Have you ever used a floppy disk?

I use them just about every day. Old samplers yo.

I had an Amiga back in the day and that was all floppy disks though I think you could get a cd drive later on but not much used it.

Yes, many times. I had projects saved there for school!

I had an Amiga so a bunch of games used to come on up to 14 floppy disks. Fate of Atlantis used to take nearly an hour and many different swaps to load.

I used actual floppy discs (ones that flopped) during the 80s on an Acorn BBC Computer, im so old....

Glad to see floppies aren't quite THAT old yet. Five and a quarter, REPRESENT!

5 1/4" is the real floppy, and yes by the time the 3,5"s came out I already felt old and frightened by this new technology.

Used to use fdisk a ton so yea.

Most of my childhood

As far as I know, floppy disks are the only way to play Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D.

I had a bunch of games on floppies! Long story short, when I was a kid we had 200+ floppies with games on them since my parents worked at IBM, very closely with the engineers.

Used as recently as a year ago, on a legacy machine in the office.

Before that, had to turn in programming assignments in one of my college classes on one.

Sure. I used some 3.5" floppies in elementary and middle school.

My dad had some old 5 1/4" floppies, but I never saw any in use.

Yes, and I was in the room when a guy copied a floppy. It was not pretty.

They all had CD-ROM releases as well. (as well as many other releases, both digital and physical) In fact, I don't think Duke 3D ever came out on floppy, since floppy releases for games were already a thing of the past in '96.

8", 5.25" or 3.5" I've used them all...

Now, let's talk punch card decks (always number your deck!)...

yeah... I used them a whole lot when I was a kid, but only the 3.5 inch ones though, not the actual floppy ones(we still called thm floppy disks anyway), a whooping 1.44MB of storage goodness.

I still remember when I got my first cd-rom drive on a "multimedia kit" from Creative, which was basically a cd-rom drive, a sound card(which I think was a soundblaster 16) and a pair of speakers, it came with the Dig an full throttle too :) my first cd games.

Thanks for making me feel old.

I remember having a floppy disk to save my work. I hated it because they could break or everything could be erased, those things were fragile. I though the legit floppy disks that were actually floppy were more durable. Used those but only to load games and other programs. Back before color monitors.

I haven't used one in almost 10 years, but before that, I used them daily.

On a related note, I have a USB drive I bought 10 years ago and it still works fine.

yes i have, heck i have even backed up my HDD on tapes although they most likely came out later then the floppy. in any case it was awesome and only took up about 12 of them

i really never use my dvd drive, but man it sucks if you dont have one when you need it. had a laptop that needed to be reformatted, there was no dvd drive in it, so i wanted to install windows via a usb key but it was 3.0 and apparently it would not run on it until the support was added via windows. worked fine on my pc.

When I was a kid, you couldn't even boot up a computer without one. And I'm talking about the ones that were actually floppy.

When I was a kid I got an Amiga and a big box full of games. So yeah, I did.

And it was fun just to play with the protective shutter and the write protection lock on it.

I haven't used one in probably 8-10 years, but I still have all of them in one of those plastic containers that were made to keep them organized.

I used them a lot on our school computers and on our first and second home PCs. Remember the days when installing a program needed 6 pages of instructions just to install the install correctly? those were the days.

I used 5.25" for ten years. Used 3.5" for about ten years. And, now USB flash for about ten years. ... Crap! That means I will have to switch soon for another decade long run!!!

Yeah, I don't remember what for but I have used non-floppy floppy disks

Oh yes. In fact, it was just with my most recent pc build (2 years ago) that I opted not to include a floppy drive. I used to always use 15k SCSI drives in an array for my system drive and needed the floppy to set it up in Windows, but now I use solid state, so it seems floppy has finally lost all usefulness for me.

But I used them all time growing up. Even used them in my first couple of college years, although by my senior year the transition to flashdrives was in full swing.

I was born in 1986 so yes, the first games I played were on Floppy disks.

Yup, a decade ago.

Yep, but only 3.5". I rarely saw 5.25" when I was young. But this was before cd-rom, so floppys were the only way of transporting data physically when I grew up. I stopped using floppys as boot discs around 2000 I think. My previous case, a Cooler Master Centurion 5 that I bought 2006 had a floppy port in the front. That's the last of my cases to have a floppy port in the front. The last game I bought that came on floppy discs? Probably Sim City 2000.

Yes. Just on the amiga 500 though so I've never used floppy disks that were actually floppy.

I indeed used one at some point. It's pretty amazing how they were viewed as worthless in my day. I haven't seen one in forever. I also equate them with the games I have no interest collecting. Floppy game collecting, ewewewew. No thank you....

I'm only 23 and this was the same for me -.-

Well, I was around when they were all we had. Hell, I've used C64 cassettes for their intended purpose too.

I used to use floppies all the time. When I was in elementary school, a friend of mine got a copy of this on a disk, and we would play it on the school computers all the time. I still have it, and still have no idea how he managed to get it.

I'm 26 years old and I had a computer since I was 4. So... yeah!

I remember using floppy disks when I was in secondary school, so yes. I'm surprised that there are almost no "No" votes on this poll.

Yeah, I remember playing tons of Heretic and Prehistoric 2 on floppy discs.

IMO, these zip discs kicked floppies' butts. Too bad the CD killed em off so quickly.

I still have a mountain of floppies for my Atari STs. I always think that one day, one rainy day down the line, I'll break out the ST and have a weekend of childhood nostalgia. Of course I'm old enough to know that that is never going to happen but those discs(disks?) will never see the cheeky side of a bin.

I'm only 22, and I remember using them often. So it doesn't surprise me the vote is at 98% yes.

That's a tat I could support!

5,25" were the best except for their low storage ability and high failure rates--but I still love 'em!

floppy disks aren't that old, especially since elementary schools are the last to update their tech. I mean cdr's and cd burners used to be crazy expensive.

Yeah, but only the 3.5" ones.

A few months away here, myself, I and have used plenty of floppies for various reasons until CD-R(W)s became more of a thing about a decade ago.

Also, I actually very recently totally had a client at work who needed help finding the only computer in our university's engineering building that could read floppies (for some reason we disabled them in our actual computer labs)

Sadly, the data in his floppy was corrupted and we could only recover one of two of the files!

Of course! How else could I possibly patch my copy of Dink Smallwood. I'm pretty sure that's the only time I ever used a floppy disk though. Least as far as I can remember.

Magnets -- The silent killer.

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