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Postby Drexlore » Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:37 pm

RIP


I still have tons of these laying around, while I don't use them anymore, it's an end of an era for computer users.


And you young'ns that grew up with CDs...1.44mb was all that was needed most of the time!
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Postby Gridfan » Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:46 pm

Nope, it was 720 disks. (Amiga rocks)
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Postby Drexlore » Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:11 pm

Griddy, the 720s were only around for a few years, do they really count?

Also, the 5.25s!


Or punch cards.....
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Postby Vallikat » Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:29 pm

Yeah I still have a bunch of those laying around too. Mostly stuff I saved from an old job actually. I'm not even sure why I kept them except that I was always very possessive of the databases and spreadsheets I created in those days (and never trusted a single one of the dolts I worked with to do a proper back-up).

I used to have a bunch of 5.25s as well but I got rid of those a long time ago. Along with a bunch of back-up tapes from my old compaq deskpro.
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Postby Klinical » Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:08 pm

Am I the only one here that still has reel to reel tapes and 8inch floppy disks?
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Postby Dasubervixen » Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:37 pm

8 inch floppy what?

Oh, "disk" :wink:
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Postby Jairyn » Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:38 pm

my gawd, if your "disc" is 8 inches and floppy, that's a scary thought.
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Postby Vallikat » Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:39 pm

Jairyn wrote:my gawd, if your "disc" is 8 inches and floppy, that's a scary thought.


Speak for yourself. :P
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Postby Sprkly » Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:45 am

LMAO... poor Doc....... :wink:
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Postby Shigy » Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:08 pm

They've been dead for a long time lol
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Postby Drexlore » Thu Apr 29, 2010 5:45 pm

Shigy wrote:They've been dead for a long time lol


But now it's official! Just because no one really used them since about 2004 doesn't mean they were dead...just resting!
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Postby Dithyramb » Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:28 pm

Klinical wrote:Am I the only one here that still has reel to reel tapes and 8inch floppy disks?


Nope! I still got a box of 8inch floppies.
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