I found this old software on a medium I don’t recognize at my church. Does anyone know if this has value to anybody? this

  • jsveiga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It’s the guts of 3.5" floppies, like these, they usually stored 720kB, then 1.44MB, but the latest versions (double sided) were 2.88MB.

    The larger one at the bottom is from a 5 1/4" (orange in this picture, the big daddy in the picture is 8", first type I used, with COBOL)

    … and now you kids know where the “save” button icon came from.

    They were not meant to be removed from their protective envelopes, they’re probably damaged now.

    • redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      11 months ago

      This reminds me of when I got a new PC when I was younger and I was shocked… “WHAT?! THEY COME WITH 128MB RAM NOW!!! AND THEY HAVE A DVD TRAY??? No more floppy disks!!!”

      Fuck, those were nice times (except for dial-up internet).

      • milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.devEnglish
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        11 months ago

        There’s nothing quite like passing around copies of games that are eight-diskettes large and finding out that disk #8 is unreadable after a 30min install. Good times.