1y ago

Anyone know what this is?

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

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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.
- God damn I'm old.
  
  Hear, hear.
  As in, wha? Did you say something? taps cane on the floor
  
  Come in!
  
  Your belt onions are looking spiffy today
  
  Which was the style at the time...
- 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).
  
  I remember having a CD burner, dvd burner, floppy drive, and Zip drive for those rare occasions.
  
  I remember backing up all my documents on a zip drive and feeling like we reached peak storage.
  Last month I bought two 6TB drives into my house because of all my photos/videos.
  
  Zip drives!
  
  Felt like we could store the whole world on 100mb zip disks
  
  I still have a working zip drive.
  
  I still have a bunch of zip disks that I want to examine. Think they're still good?
  
  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.
  
  I have the original floppy set for MS Office 4.3 for Windows 3.11.
  Fourty-three 3.5" disks.
  
  Hahaha, mfw the last few disks is the same face the morning after a spicy burrito.
  
  I got all excited when the cost of hard drives got down to $10/MB.
  
  The part that's wild to me is I have an SD card in a computer in my pocket that cost $10 or so and is basically disposable but it's larger than the hard drive in my first computer from 25 years ago
  
  You can get a 128GB pendrive for like 15€...
  That's crazy.
  
  I remember upgrading my Macintosh computer from 512kB to A FULL MEGABYTE! Wow, what a difference, suddenly I could run two programs at once - even three small ones.
  Ah, the eighties... Those were the days.
- Started with the 8" bastards on a dedicated word processor (with a 12" CRT, green phospher glow, and typwriter style printer built right into the top of the unit!) that my dad had for medical filekeeping at his office.
  It's been amazing watching storage tech from those to zip drives, and now, floppies of any kind are dying.
  
  My daughter found a 3.5" floppy in a drawer a couple of years ago (she was 20) and went "What is this? It looks just like a 'Save' button!" :)
  
  I hope you smacked her for that lol.
  
  My parents first computer was 3 feet tall and cost $30,000. I liked to play frogger on it lmao.
- Don't forget the cassettes before that. (Sinclair 1000 / ZX-81)
  
  Having worked in a datacenter somewhat recently, I can assure you that cassettes are still in use. Now, they manage to fit tens of TB in a 4"x4" square.
  
  Oregon Trail, on cassette, on a RadioShack TRS-80 in the school library.
  Gaming heaven.
- First game I ever played was on those 8” floppies. It was a turtle game where you would type in DOS commands and make it move. I can’t remember the command prompts but it was fun enter like forward 1000 and it would blast across the screen.
  
  Logo!
  https://dosgames.com/game/logo/
  
  That’s it! Ha ha wow haven’t seen that since elementary school.
  
  Logo wasn't a game but a programming language.
  
  As far as I can remember, it was both, as it was an educational tool developed to teach children the basics of programming while playing it as a game.
  
  Good old turtle. You could also program loops, so you could make fancy shapes like circles.
  
  That sounds like Logo
  
  I learned this and BASIC at around the same time.
  
  Logo ? Anyway there was a this "programming langue" with a turtle and it had like 6 commands : move forward/backwards, turn left/right, pen up/down :-D
  
  I remember that! As others have posted, Logo.
- If you play them backwards a satanic message is heard before the media bursts into flames.

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