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It was a simpler time (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I had to use floppies to bring my programming assignments to university in early 2000s. They were so unreliable, I had a rule to copy every assignment on at least 3 drives. I've asked them many times to setup an FTP, so students would not have to struggle, but they would not listen.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I remember taking my first GIS course and having to buy ZIP discs for each project around that time. That ended up being an expensive class.

    Also, the lab PCs re-imaged every time they shut down, so if the PC crashed you had no way to recover the data if you hadn't written it to the zip drive, which we usually only did at the end of the day because they were slow.

    We basically had a revolt to get the university to unlock the USB ports for us to use those fancy new flash drives the next year.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    That's funny yet odd. I use floppy disk still to this day for my 200aml cnc plasma table. It's the easiest method to load the gcode on. The rs232 is to much of a p.i.a. I used to have an issue when I used a USB floppy drive into my laptop. I ended up finding a pc with a dedicated floppy drive since then. I've had zero issues. Wich is also more surprising that floppy disks even work around the big ass high voltage transformer for the plasma power source. The big servo motor drives and the welders in the shop.

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