ok idfk where to post this. but uh. i guess here its good because floppies are pretty much only used for retro tech these days??? anyways WHY IS THIS SO SATISFYING…
ok idfk where to post this. but uh. i guess here its good because floppies are pretty much only used for retro tech these days??? anyways WHY IS THIS SO SATISFYING…
Work at a retirement place. We get performers through on occasion.
Saw a dude with catalogue of floppies. Dude claimed he got burnt by a usb on occasion so he went back to floppies. I was enraptured.
He reeked of cigarettes and was still a road performer in his 60s
its all fun an games until someone needs to reset their pacemaker!
those pacemaker reset magnets are cool!
What does a 60-something retirement home road performer store on floppy disks, exactly
His queued mixes i believe.
He would be doing vocals/guitar and play the song without whatever he was going to do via his board
Could be wrong but only conclusion could draw from his bizarre setup
@TwoBeeSan @dosuser123456 Where does one even buy floppies any more?
In Japan, convenience stores sold packs of blank floppy diskettes up until around 2015.
Also remember seeing VHS, Hi-8, audio cassette, DAT, mini-DV, MiniDisc… You can still buy a short spindle of CD-Rs and individual DVD+Rs.
https://www.floppydisk.com/
There seems to be still plenty of refurbs and “new old stock” on the market.
i dont buy em i just get em off the old floppy box in the basement (theres some wing commander disks in there i used to grab to play the game on the homebox back when it was a 2001 tower and not a 2020 laptop)
Always ods to see patients using better tech then the carers?
lolwhut