superkret to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-24 months agoI was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)imagemessage-square224fedilinkarrow-up1501arrow-down128
arrow-up1473arrow-down1imageI was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)superkret to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-24 months agomessage-square224fedilink
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down4·4 months agoMount nine of them on a square board so that they’re all focused on a single point for a mild solar furnace. Use the last one to look at yourself, the proud owner of a mild solar furnace.
minus-squarePolydoreSmith@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·4 months agoYou… don’t know what a floppy disk is, do you?
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoI do, I just don’t pay careful attention to details and just run with what I think things are saying. My first computer was an Atari 520ST. No hard drive (its OS ran off a chip), and every program ran off a floppy. And your storage was on a floppy. Yeah, I know floppies. I used to have shoeboxes of them.
minus-squareTiltinyall@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·4 months agoWhat kind of floppies are you thinking of? the very little metal on those discs aren’t that reflective.
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 months agoI was too far in the future, using CDs. Floppies, wow. Now I’m going to have to rethink my whole thing.
Mount nine of them on a square board so that they’re all focused on a single point for a mild solar furnace.
Use the last one to look at yourself, the proud owner of a mild solar furnace.
You… don’t know what a floppy disk is, do you?
I do, I just don’t pay careful attention to details and just run with what I think things are saying.
My first computer was an Atari 520ST. No hard drive (its OS ran off a chip), and every program ran off a floppy. And your storage was on a floppy.
Yeah, I know floppies. I used to have shoeboxes of them.
What kind of floppies are you thinking of? the very little metal on those discs aren’t that reflective.
I was too far in the future, using CDs. Floppies, wow.
Now I’m going to have to rethink my whole thing.