These plastic squares could hold an absolutely massive 1.44 megabytes of data and it was the games came on for shit like the Amiga and other systems. I never owned an Amiga myself, but I do remember having some kind of computer thing with a green and black screen that played some kind of golf game that came on a floppy disk, that was the shit back then.
Back in my old school days, I remember we used to get a free floppy disk from the library, and we'd fill it full of stupid pictures from some picture website and go giggle at them at home. It was dumb but I have a lot of fond memories with this old file storage format.
The best thing about these damn things though was the sound it makes when you put it in the drive. It would make this awesome kind of click sound, pushing one of these bastards in was so satisfying. On top of that, one way to stave off boredom during the IT classes was to flick the metal bit on the top back and forth, I could do that shit for hours.
But alas, the floppy disk is no more, but I'm glad I got to experience the tail end of their existence. Maybe one day we can have something that looks like a floppy but has shit tons of storage on it, that would be nice.
I remember installing windows 3.1 with about 20 of those fuckers.
ReplyDeleteGotta agree with the sound.