Who Here Remembers These?

"Denver Is Stuck In The 90s" (denver80222) 01/26/2015 at 05:30 • Filed to: None

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Or better yet who remembers that jingle.

From Snapchat

Tohru > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/26/2015 at 05:47

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That's a bigger floppy too, 5.25". If that's a hi-cap you might be lookin' at up to 1.2MB of storage on that bad boy.

The jingle, of course, is "Don't copy that floppy." Though I seem to recall that was much later, when 3.5" disks were the prevalent ones in use.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Tohru 01/26/2015 at 05:50

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Ya that's a floppy that's actually floppy. It's from my snapchat story, I have like 100 blank 5.25" floppys In a bag somewhere, that one managed to get separated from the rest somehow. I got them to burn software for my apple IIc. I never got around to doing that

E. Julius > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/26/2015 at 05:55

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I baaaarely remember using these. When I was learning to use a computer as a toddler, we had a newer machine that used diskettes, but my older brother got to keep our previous computer that used those.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/26/2015 at 06:35

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can you still buy them?

Roundbadge > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/26/2015 at 07:26

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Somewhere I still have my Windows 3.1 install disks on 5.25" floppy discs, as well as a copy of Borland Turbo C++ for Windows 3.1.

The machine I used them on was a 486DX 33mHz with 4 MB RAM and a 170MB hard drive...would've been about 22 years ago.

CalzoneGolem > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/26/2015 at 07:59

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Breathe in, breathe out

Breathe in, breathe out

Breathe in

Clown Shoe Pilot > Tohru 01/26/2015 at 08:46

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That's not the big one, that's the middle size. The big ones were 8". Now, get off my lawn :)

JEM > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/26/2015 at 09:05

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Hell, I remember 8" floppy disks.

RockThrillz89 > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/26/2015 at 09:06

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NewEgg has some of the diskettes. I'm sure some are out there somewhere.

Max Power > Roundbadge 01/26/2015 at 09:29

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170 MB was a huge hard drive in those days! What were you storing on there, a copy of Civilization? Secret folders of nude Kathy Ireland GIFs? Warez?

Roundbadge > Max Power 01/26/2015 at 10:17

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Actually, in 1 year's time, I had already compressed the drive with DOS 6.0 to ~220 MB.

There definitely was a copy of the original Civilization on there, though.

Tohru > Clown Shoe Pilot 01/26/2015 at 11:59

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I said "bigger", not "biggest".

Boxer_4 > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/26/2015 at 18:11

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Yes. I picked up some from these guys a little while ago.

Boxer_4 > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/26/2015 at 18:13

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I still have a stack on one of my desks.

Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > Clown Shoe Pilot 01/26/2015 at 19:35

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Do you remember when you went out and bought Ultima 4, and it came with something like 8(!!!) of those guys? That's how you knew you had a HUGE environment to explore.