Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoI was around during the stone age of the internetslrpnk.netimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareCADmonkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI remember AOL on 3.5 floppies. You could put tape over a specific hole and re-use the disk.
minus-squareteft@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoYou could do that with any copy protected floppy. That was the little sliding tab in the corner. Tab open = read-only. Tab closed = read & write.
minus-squareCADmonkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI remember the AOL disks not having the sliding tab, either it had been pried out or it was just a disk that didn’t have it.
minus-squareBene7rddso@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoAOL didn’t want you to reuse them so they didn’t have the tab
I remember AOL on 3.5 floppies. You could put tape over a specific hole and re-use the disk.
You could do that with any copy protected floppy. That was the little sliding tab in the corner. Tab open = read-only. Tab closed = read & write.
I remember the AOL disks not having the sliding tab, either it had been pried out or it was just a disk that didn’t have it.
AOL didn’t want you to reuse them so they didn’t have the tab