5 1/4 floppy disk

Capturing a bit of history before I throw it away.

Cleaning up found an old 5 1/4 floppy disk .. used to hold the drivers for a display card by the looks of it.

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.steve.t [deleted] says:

And even if you had a drive I bet it would be unreadable.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

RaeA says:

I liked the fact it was actually 'floppy' ... my kids could never work out why 3.5" floppy discs were called floppy when they weren't
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

yarra64 says:

what was the storage on one of these rae ... can you remember? 500k maybe? remember the little handle you had to flick down to hold the little beggers in the drive? ooooh this image makes me feel so nostalgic ... i think perhaps i should start worrying now!
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

RaeA says:

try 360kb :)
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

David de Groot says:

I still have a 1.2Mb 5.25" drive somewhere in a box, and boxes of 360k floppies around the place too. (even a couple of 300k CPM formated floppies too).
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

anjin-san says:

Ahhh...the old days :-D
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

Roetheperfect says:

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es.youtube.com/watch?v=ivrP8pUuFHw
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

MaxxFordham says:

Actually, RaeA, you should go back and teach your kids that 3 1/2" disks, AND Iomega Zip AND Bernoulli disks ARE, in fact, FLOPPY, even though their jackets are not, unlike the jackets of 5 1/4" and 8" floppy disks.

The others are called FLOPPY, too, because in fact, the name "floppy disk" is not so much because of the jacket of 5 1/4" and 8" disks being floppy as it is because the DISKS themselves--I mean literally justs the round magnetic things in their jackets--ARE floppy even as 3 1/2" and Zip and Bernoulli disks. If you were to open up the hard jacket of one of these other disks and hold only the disk itself (or actually the disk with only its metal hub still attached), you'd find that for yourself. So yes, 3 1/2" disks, etc., actually ARE floppy, too. Tell that to your kids and then they'll be straightened out.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

MaxxFordham says:

Not just 360 KB. HD (high density) 5 1/4" ones came out later that could hold a WHOPPING 1.2 MB!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

MaxxFordham says:

I have some Commodore 1541s and other-branded compatibles, and a 1571 drive for Commodore 64 and 128, etc. computers. Those are 5 1/4" and they still work. I have a 1581, and it's the 3 1/2" drive for Commodore 64s and 128s, etc. I also have some Amiga stuff. I don't think there ever was a 5 1/4" drive for Amigas.

I do still now have a 5 1/4" PC drive that I've installed in one of my lesser PCs because it still works.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

MaxxFordham says:

I have some 8" disks even though I don't have any drives that run them.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

MaxxFordham says:

By the way, Rae, you ought to keep that disk just because it's a bit of history and it's only as thick as several sheets of paper so it wouldn't take up much room in a box of papers.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

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