What kind of sense is there in storing your floppies with the shutter at the top?

Service accounts and RBAC has taken you for an absolute fool!

Stop sticking them to your fridge with a magnet

But the slide is so fun to fiddle with! Click clack click clack, why doesn't Commander Keen run anymore!?!

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.

You must have started using them at the tail end of their life when stuff got cheaper including the drives.

Bad CRC for the win!

Mate, don’t give them ideas. The enshittifiers literally will implement “save tokens” into an app as soon as it occurs to them.

I remember downloading games from sketchy Warez sites on the school computers because they had a T1 line and I had dialup. They'd come in Floppy-sized segments; I'd go home each day with a stack of 10-15 floppies, copy the segment to my drive, delete it from the disk, and go back the next day to collect more. It would take weeks to get a whole game, and that's only if the warez site didn't disappear before I finished collecting parts. Then there was the butt clencher moment when I'd try to unpack the whole thing and see if it actually worked or not which, most of the time, it did not.

Those were the days.

The only thing i want back from floppy disks is the form factor

Ugh, never. But installing the OS ... also ugh

One bad disk or error on your part going through an 8 disk install… yeah. But we went from tape drives to 5 1/4” to 3 1/2” to the phenomenal speeds of a 32x CDRW drive. Nothing beat a CD install. I don’t even bat an eye at 30GB game update download anymore, you could fit an amazing game on 1-4 CDs and watching it install was more exciting than waiting for these massive game DLs we have today.

I think Slackware dwarfed even Office on floppy count, but it may have depended on which modules you needed.

I've had the pleasure of installing Windows 95 and Slackware from floppy and I can't say I miss that part.

I also have a box just like the one in the picture sitting in my drawer right now. With floppies. One of them has Netscape on it. I really should clean some day.

I remember getting an error on the 8th disk and crying with a bricked system

While I disagree for the most part, that's just me being super cynical because of how super shitty things are right now. Also, I feel like there was a vanishing small window of time that MS Office way the go to suite and you didn't use a CD for installation. My copy of Office 97 came on CD and Word Perfect was still very popular then.

Locks are not made for criminals, locks are made for occasionals after all, 99% of locks are very easy to break in and the 1% is a nightmare even for the owner

Just like CD cases. Here in the UK you were allowed to return CD's if wasn't opened (like most items really). They put thick shiny security stickers on them. We used to buy CD's, open the cases from the hinges, burn them to my PC then return it for a full refund.

Not on the better ones you couldn't, but you could trivially pick with with paper clips.

And as my first college ID. And on at least one of my licenses, I think...

That's because all of the other instances had the keys get lost and the owners had to break them open and buy new diskette cases.

Sometimes it's about not wanting it stolen physically.

But then again this whole box is small enough to just carry off so I dunno.

As a kid I figured out most of those tubular key locks that were used to disable the keyboard/power/HDD all used the same key too.

That's so cool

I think this is a showcase photo for the case and the flipppies look better amd more like generic floppy disk with the metal slider on the top. It clearly communicates the purpose of the item, and the keys are in to show that it locks with a key and there's 1 spare key.

Dafuq you on about this is the correct orientation.

Edit: After doing some research I may be outvoted. Huh.

Because those little metal things stick together and could ruin the disk when you accidentally snag it. This way, you could see how they are against each other and not snag them.

Good question, could just be slop.

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I have one still from my childhood and I never had a key. The lid flexes enough to bypass the lock.

Also if you took the key out, it wouldn't have started.

Actually, I guess it depended on what kind of key it was, some cases had locks for opening them, others had the locks wired into the mobo and it wouldn't start unless the key shorted the connection. Or you could open it up and hot wire the computer lol.

UpperEndian format, clearly.

The same people who wrote the data backwards.

We definitely had this one too, Commander Keen was almost always at the front because of me.

I have one upstairs. In bed now, and not taking a photo of it. I might do it tomorrow, if I remember. Good night.

I lied. I have two!