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Control Data Corporation floppies.

Control Data Corporation floppies.

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[–] • 3 pts

Floppy Disks! Some of the techs in the lab were having a stress relief session goofing around and made hats with them. Slit one side open remove the disk, open the sleeve and slide it down on your head. It seemed funny at the time, circa 1985.

[–] • 3 pts

I have some new in the box. I get a call every once in a while from someone who hear my name from someone who knew me somewhere and they NEED some 5 1/4 disks.

Some people think they are free, and they are not.

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

5 1/4 were the newer, smaller size (that held the same or more amount of data). These guys made hats out of the older 8" versions. Yeah, 40+ year old technology.

[–] • 6 pts

I sold all of my 8" disks. Those went for some cash.

[–] • 2 pts

I was cleaning out a closet at a client's that they used for IT storage. I found a binder of their financial software and in it was a sleeve and an 8 inch floppy disc. I snapped a photo and shared it in a team chat asking if anyone collected old tech.

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

8 inch floppy? Damn that's some historic 1970s stuff.

My trs80 had 4k and a cassette drive, and I was hot shit especially when I loaded up pyramid. 8 inchers were far too much money.

[–] • 1 pt

Wow, yeah. I run across stuff like that at times, it's always interesting to see.

[–] • 1 pt

When I was around 10yrs old I had a 1979 Apple ][e and a walkie-talkie. I used to write programs in Basic and I discoverd that when I left the walkie talkie on it would pick up frequencies from the computer, especially when I listed out the code

[–] • 1 pt

On some machines, especially the early TRS-80 macines that had no sound, putting an AM Radio next to the device was an accepted way of getting sound because, as you discovered, the internal RF would modulate the receiver.

I think it's "The Creative TRS-80" from Creative Computing Press that had a program that would play Happy Birthday over a radio as a demonstration of how that worked.