5 1/4 Floppy disk

haha.. that's almost an antique now.. lol =D BUt i still have got quite alot of them at home but cant use them anymore as i have got no floopy drive anymore.. hehe.. PLus, the storage space is so small as compared to USB.. ANd it's big in size too.. lol But in the past, there's a tredn for floppy as it comes in many colors too and thus i bought alot of it.. In the end, i din get to use much my computer crashed.. By time i got a new one, floppy was no longer in use.. lol

hahaha yeah i know that...i used to play with that back in my elementary days..i have also dissected it..hehehehe we also throw it like a boomerang. But i did not get the chance to use it for saving files only for playing..hehehe what i have used is the 3 1/2 floppy disk..

I still have a box or 2 of those somewhere. When I first use the computer we don't have yet a hard disk, all are through that disk, Boot disk is in drive A and Data disk is in Drive B. This is why we still have the none existent B drive today.

Hi, Do you know my professional life was relied on those 5 1/4 floppy for more than 6 months during 1993. I used two floppies, one for starting LOTUS 123 and other one for storing the sales details of our company. In my opinion they are more reliable than their 3.5 mini floppies. But you must be careful, NO BENDING, NO PLACING OF RADIO/TAPE RECORDER or any other magnetic material. I lost data by placing on my Radio. They are very convenient to carry, just put inside your notebook. I used extensively those 5 1/4 inch floppies, during 1989 to 1993.

Yes I remember those big floppy disk, that is the media we used in college. We store our programs and data onto that as well as the different arcade games we collected. This discussion made me think how easy or simple it was before. Word processing software programs and computer games can fit into one floppy disk. But now you have to install the programs and games on a hard disk because it wont fit on a single floppy disk or CD. I also have the inside of a floppy disk signed, I used a correction pen which is white in color, it looked nice when you pin it to your cork board.

hi jinxky, I remember the 5 1/4 floppy disk, we used it while CPUs were the bed type before the tower type. And with the Turbo button down at the middle. We used to it hold the games that we had for the computer way back then. I remember Family Feud and Alfie games on our computer that came with the floppy disk.

Hahahah :D I remember those...used to be a big headache for me, easily damaged. I still can hear in my head the disgruntle sound of B drive when reading one of those. Perhaps you have not heard of it before, there is a bigger size, 8-inch floppy disk. I bet you have not seen one, I used it to fan myself when I get too hot hahahah :D. I used to work with those on the very old ancient dinosaur HP computers using Forth language.