Anybody knows this antique?

floppy disk

@youless (112108)

Guangzhou, China

March 3, 2018 4:55am CST

Perhaps some of you may not know what it is as it is already an antique. It is floppy disk and long time ago it stored data as well as our USB disk today. But of course at that time the storage was very small. Actually I still had them at home but there is no way for me to open them any more

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Your Highness Emperor Albert Whisker

@CaptAlbertWhisker (32507)

• Calgary, Alberta

3 Mar 18

I use to be a collector as a kid, I remember bragging my collection that goes in different colors. i even have transparent ones.

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

You must have so many floppy disks today.

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

@CaptAlbertWhisker What a surprise to hear that! I thought you would still keep them.

Your Highness Emperor Albert Whisker

@CaptAlbertWhisker (32507)

• Calgary, Alberta

4 Mar 18

@youless I dont have them anymore.

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changjiangzhibin89

@changjiangzhibin89 (16533)

• China

3 Mar 18

I have used the floppy disk.Now I still keep many musical optical disks .

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

Perhaps recording them into CD and DVD will be better.

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changjiangzhibin89

@changjiangzhibin89 (16533)

• China

4 Mar 18

@youless Good idea !

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@rebelann (111158)

• El Paso, Texas

3 Mar 18

Back in the late 1970s we used the large black one at work, I doubt anyone has one of those old data entry machines as they were generally only used in businesses

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

Here the large black one was available in my country in 80s.

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@rebelann (111158)

• El Paso, Texas

4 Mar 18

When I worked at this one company back in 1976 I used those and then again in 1983 at another company @youless

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@amadeo (111948)

• United States

3 Mar 18

yes very well.Glad they are gone

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

Yeah, glad that they are gone

@amadeo (111948)

• United States

4 Mar 18

@youless someone probably do have some.

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@JudyEv (325696)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Mar 18

I used these a lot but as you say there isn't anything around that can access them now.

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

Hopefully you already transferred the data from floppy disks already.

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@JudyEv (325696)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Mar 18

@youless Yes, I took off anything I thought I might need.

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@renicemae (4883)

• Philippines

3 Mar 18

I remember that. I The very first time I used that was in my second year in high school. According to a tutorial I've been watching, Floppy disks are not yet completely wiped out now. Some IT industries still use that. I think virus cant penetrate there..that's why? I'm not sure.

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

Really? How surprising to hear that!

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@renicemae (4883)

• Philippines

4 Mar 18

@youless I;m also surprised

to think that it can only store Mbs of data

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

@renicemae 1.3MB?

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Just an Ordinary Owl?

@owlwings (43915)

• Cambridge, England

3 Mar 18

I certainly remember floppy disks! My first computer (an Amstrad 1512) didn't have a hard disk and only had 512 Kb (yes, that's KILObytes) of RAM. I had to load the operating system (MSDOS) from a 5¼" floppy disk and any software I wanted to run (or data I wanted to store) had to be on another 5¼" floppy. I never had 8" floppies but the company I worked for had a few machines which used them. Some years after that the 3½" floppy disk came in (which could store up to 720Kb - twice as much as the 5¼" floppy - and we used that as the standard medium for storing, transferring and sharing data for a long time. By then I was in IT Support and IT Training and I well remember the troubles we had retrieving data off corrupt disks (mostly because people had ejected the disk before it had finished writing!)

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

You are right. Long time ago there was no hard disk for computer

In fact the floppy disks can't store the data very well.

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@sjvg1976 (41131)

• Delhi, India

3 Mar 18

We used to have them in our college days but now a days they have been replaced by pen drives.

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

They were replaced long time ago already.

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@hereandthere (45651)

• Philippines

3 Mar 18

yes, i used diskettes and had to label them and have a container for them

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

You still keep them well.

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@hereandthere (45651)

• Philippines

5 Mar 18

@youless i meant when we used them in the office in the past

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@xiaolisu (957)

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3 Mar 18

it seems familiar but i don't know how to use it.

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

It doesn't matter any more because today nobody will use it.

@jstory07 (134422)

• Roseburg, Oregon

7 Mar 18

Yes a floppy disk is a thing of the past. An antique for sure now.

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

7 Mar 18

I think no way to open them today

@marlina (154166)

• Canada

3 Mar 18

Yes, I know those.

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

That's great.

@LadyDuck (457967)

• Switzerland

3 Mar 18

I know very well all of them. I still have boxes of the 3".1/2 discs (the smallest) and I used the 5.1/4 with my Apple two.

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

Your Apple two may be worth a lot today

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@LadyDuck (457967)

• Switzerland

4 Mar 18

@youless It is possible, we have Apple II and 1 Apple IIc, it was the small portable. My husband wants to donate them to the computer museum.

@Raj7779 (3657)

• Canada

3 Mar 18

That's great to have such a memory

you are Amazing

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

Thank you!

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@Raj7779 (3657)

• Canada

4 Mar 18

@youless you welcome

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@Icydoll (36717)

• India

3 Mar 18

I don't have at home..glad you having such a good memories.

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@youless (112108)

• Guangzhou, China

4 Mar 18

It is fine. They are not available today.