Maybe he's doing more than just a quick format. Ahhh, that sound brings back memories.

 

Yeah, I don't trust QuickFormat when it comes to a 15 year old disk that I'm about to store critical data on. Unfortunately, the supply of floppy disks in the office is getting pretty slim, so I've started re-using old driver floppies that came with things like Jaz drives and ethernet cards.

 

 

You know how you know computer **** is old? When the military doesn't even use it anymore.


We stopped using floppy disks 2 years ago.... Yeah... we still find a couple floating around... and yeah, we still have floppy drives.

 

also.. technically, that isn't a floppy dick... that's a zip disk. Much higher capacity than your regular floppy dick.


dick

 

That's why I posted it mang. I miss Zip drives. Almost wish they caught on. It says 250MB on it...

 

I remember my dad was using zip drives for ages. He was running his own company, and we had one of those boxes that were the length of your forearm. It was awesome, held all of his designs for the pattern plotter and all this other ****. They were super handy. For the time they were phased in, they were extremely popular. But USB came up super fast, and for an interface, it was easy to market.

Anyway.. computers are gay.

 

Pics of dad

 

The Zip dick is a floppy dick.

Anybody remember Bernoulli? Floptical? HiFD? Caleb UHD? SuperDisk (LS-120)? Yeah. There are some formats that went absolutely nowhere.




Well, we have a couple of super-duper-high-end scopes / digital analyzers at the lab which have floppy drives. That's the only way to get data off of them, so I still keep one PC on the network with a floppy drive.

Sidebar: I still have an actual 8" floppy drive lying around somewhere. No idea which box it's in, but I know I have it.

 

I never liked talking about IT ****.. because it makes me look like this massive nerd with glasses and skinny arms with a slightly more toned and athletic looking right arm. But still only weighing 135lbs at 5'9 or whatever.

I'm just going to over emphasize my masculinity by saying... you're all nerds.


But **** man, that's a lot of gear, what exactly do you do?

 

Airplanes still use floppy disks to input new data to the flight systems.

 

True.. but that pretty much applies to the older C130s we got. Our spec ops Talons and Shadows aren't using floppies IIRC. Most got a huge overhaul last decade turn of 9/11

 

Yeah, that's true.

The following is an excerpt from an email which I sent this morning:The nerdiest part is that all three of the recipients understood this information without any further clarification, and found it useful.

That might be by own personal record for most acronyms in a single sentence.

 

Forget Zip Drives, tape drives are where it's at!

 

Posted this here before when it was off-topic. Reposting now that it's on-topic.

 

this thread used to be cool

 

Here, now it can be cool again:



8 inches.

 

ok I give up

 

I have spear of destiny somewhere on 5.25" floppy dicks.

 

I just threw away two SCSI Zip drives last month.