For me, it must have been 20 years ago in 2005. I got Kingston’s 512MB flash drive for a Christmas present and oh my how great it felt to hold so much of memory in my pocket. After that it was clear to me that there is no use for floppies to me anymore.
You must log in or register to comment.
I have a troubleshooting boot disk from back in the day in a ringbinder pocket folder thing. I keep on thinking of getting rid of them but Im kinda nostalgic about it and don’t. does not take up all that much space. also tracking software.
Back in 2017 I found a bunch in our garage. I bought a cheap USB floppy drive off Amazon and went through them. It was real nostalgic hearing that noise and seeing the A: drive show up on the explorer sidebar. I archived them all on what is now my NAS.
Prior to that, probably the early 2000s. My parents bought a computer in 2004. It was the last one I can remember coming with an internal floppy drive.
The save icon in so many programs are still floppy disks. So technically, I still use floppy disks pretty much daily. 😆
Not ctrl-s?
Fair!
2003
I would have used a USB drive; I owned one back then. But I needed something that would work with the school’s computers. This was back when most mice and keyboards were still PS/2 and most printers were parallel, so USB wasn’t on every computer yet. At least, not at the school I went to.
most printers were serial
I think you mean parallel. There were serial printers, but the vast majority were parallel.
Yeah, I do. Been a while.
Used? Just using one now, but as a coaster.
About a month ago. Found a copy of railroad tycoon on a 5 1/4" in an abandoned building and wanted to see if it still worked.
It did not
Aw that would have been awesome
What an interesting juxtaposition on my home screen.
I don’t remember for sure, but I’d guess late 90s at the latest, for smaller files where it wouldn’t make sense to burn a CD-R and uploading it somewhere (especially since I didn’t have a CD-RW until later) and downloading it wasn’t a viable option.
With most data transfer to friends being via BBS or later IRC DCC over the Internet, and software becoming available on CDROM, and Zip drives for backup, and CD-R and CD-RW becoming available for larger files, the use cases for floppies were already becoming limited by mid-90s.
I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t own a 1541 until early 2009. I was a cassette lamer.
So for Easter 2008 I have handed in a commodore 64 executable music entry on cassette at breakpoint. I think they were the last to require entries to be submitted on physical media.
In the years after I still used a lot of 5.25" and 3.5" on my c64, Amiga and Atari.
Today I have a turbo chameleon 64, a c64 ultimate and a gotek drive on my Amiga. I don’t miss diskettes.
As for USB drives. I got one for Christmas 2001. It had a whopping 32mb of storage and required proprietary drivers to mount.
Around 2013, when I was just 13, on the computer at my grandparents place. I had to actually ask around and spend effort to find floppys since by then they were already obsolete, but my grandparents PC only had a floppy drive available. I used it to attempt to write an OS (I know I know, daunting task but I didnt know how much I didnt know). I got as far as writing the bootloader and got it to load and print Hello World, but no further.
A couple of months ago to see the solar eclipse…
…
…
Don’t fucking judge me =_=
I cannot remember but I’d have to guess probably 20-25 years ago.
Early 2000s, saving patches on a Korg Triton.
Not exactly a floppy, but close: more than 20 years ago a very dear person gave me an Iomega Zip drive and a couple of disks. Game changer. My hard drive was 40 MB, so for the first time my backup was bigger than my computer. Same speed, too, so not much of a sacrifice.
Later came the tiny Clik! disks: great as a music player, and perfect for carrying data around when 100 MB was a HUGE amount of memory. Through all my university years the Zip was my go-to. I just learned to pray every time I heard a click that wasn’t the brand name. :D
