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Do they actually work? Floppies aren't that
reliable. I'm curious!
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They work perfectly. I'm waiting on delivery
of some DS/DD floppies I won on Ebay, so I
can make backups.
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I ebay'd a //c for gamelab back in the day
but it didn't come with any of these square
black things. And for four years I never got
around to looking for my stock of ancient
apple disks in my parents' basement. The //c
languishes still (unless gmlb's thrown it
away).
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p.s. if you want 'em, I'll see if I can find
them next time I go home. Boxes and boxes of
pirated games! Why, there might be almost a
megabyte!
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Why, there might be almost a megabyte!
hahahahaha
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I'm fairly sure that somewhere in my dad's
attic there's a floppy with an Appleworks
database of every baseball card I ever
owned... the only reason I collected them was
to put them in that database... good lord I
was a nerdy kid.
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Those be 5.25"...
OLD school. Nice.
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I've been looking for years for a
downloadable copy of "An
Introduction." It was the first program
I ran on my Apple IIc back in 1986. Letting
you know that, unlike a typewriter, the Apple
IIc knows the difference between the letter L
and the number one, and O and zero, and with
the little guy in the pointy hat dropping
through the maze to teach you how to use the
arrow keys.
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floppies evaporate pretty fast.. i'm
surprised these still work.
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Man, we just dumped a PILE of old 5.25"
floppies at work. If I had only seen this
set a week earlier, I'd have sent you a box
full!
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I have some old SS/SD IBM floppies that still
work from a still working 1981 IBM PC JNR
System (whopping 128k of ram and "metal
keyboard") and they still work. The
trick is to keep them water/air sealed and
cool and dont place any pressure on them when
stored.
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just think of the expense apple made to print
the logo (4/c) on the floppy's holders...not
to mention how hard it was to print the logo
to begin with
that is classic steve jobs. steve wozniak
would NEVER think of doing that as most of us
btw linux galore, i also had a pc
jr...hangs my head...
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Omg 5.25" ;D ;D
I used to hate the bloody mechanical lever
which blocked it in the drive. Used to get
stuck all the time on my computer.
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Floppy disks!!! OMG!... I get excited when I
see *real* floppy disks, the 3.5" ones
weren't floppy at all.
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This is my favorite part of the whole set - I
loved the design of those particular
floppies. I can still feel them in my hand.
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I'm jazzed to see a beautiful //c up and
running. And it's great to see all the
packaging, floppies, etc as they were when
new.
But as for being able to read some
5.25" mini-floppies that are barely 20
years old, I've got a number of 8"
floppies from the 70s that are readable,
thanks very much... ;^)
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I remember my dad got one of these. I found a
book with a couple of games in it, in print,
that I copied over onto the computer. This
took hours upon hours, it's rather amazing I
didn't introduce any bugs (afaik anyway).
Then, I didn't know how to save anything...
so when it was time for bed, the computer was
turned off and the game was gone.
Good times.
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Don't copy that floppy!
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wow.
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Nice man!! Looks cool!
If you need more disk, contact me. I have
somes in diferents colours. :D
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My Dad brought home some 8" floppies
from work, when they upgraded.
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Beautiful. Man, today's kids wouldn't even
know what those wonderful disks are. Old
school tech for the waffles!
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hmm... well maybe my floppies were not well
cared for. sometime in the late 90's i went
back to try to recover all of my apple ][
stuff from the 80s and found that most of my
disks were dead.
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DS/DD floppies! Oh man chills just went up
and down my spine. It's so strange when
something that was so integrated into our
hour-to-hour lives has been gone for so
long... then one day you re-encounter it
unexpectedly. Really fun set!
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Wow. Fantastic trip to my childhood. I love
the shot of the floppies. Be careful not to
shake them back and forth - you can erase
them if my memory recalls. I also remember
that you can take SS/DD (single sided)
floppies and cut a notch - be careful not to
cut the disk - that is identical to the
position of the other notch on the edge. My
official entry to nerdom.
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sticky bear bounce? Lemonade stand? Do you
have the games?
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I remember playing "wizardry" on my
Apple IIc in college. Somehow we managed to
turn that into a drinking game.
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Floppies might be more durable than expected
if stored wisely. A friend of mine has
recently bought a second-hand Commodore 64
and wanted some programs and games for it. I
gave him some of my floppies (formatted in
1985) and they all worked fine.
Cheers
Rick
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I also have a IIc working (not "so"
new like yours).... with a looooot of
floppies, much of them working perfect...
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DS/DD...love it. Old school rocks.
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My Altair 71K floppies from 1976 still read,
16 hard sector, single side.
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My Apple ][ 1977 floppies still read also...
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Dude, isn't Lemonade Stand on one of those
disks??
Watch out for rainy days!
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Sometimes you'd get a thunderstorm! With
amazing animated graphics!
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Nice! This is an excellent photostream. I'm a
part-time Apple collector myself; I got a
pile of old ones from my primary school about
5 years ago. Apple //e, an Apple //c that
still works, two of the //gs, and more.
If you interested, email me at
peterburk.flickr@mailnull.com, and I'll mail
you some of the old games I've got on 5
1/4" floppies, for free (it's not like
I'm going to be using them). I'll keep
LogoWriter and DOS (remember when that ran
native on Apple? And to think it's only just
back.)
If you'd rather I just copy off the contents
and upload them, I can too. Besides, there's
nothing like originals (even if they're
used).
I'll also accept people pestering for the
hardware if you live in Europe (shipping is
expensive).
Peter
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I have a 5 1/4 drive in my Core2Duo! No,
seriously, it's possible. I use it for make
disk backups and sending games, etc to my old
Amstrad.
Posted 2 weeks ago.
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