You fucking kids will never know the struggle

You fucking kids will never know the struggle.

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Wow grandpa why did you 3d print all those save icons?

floppy disks were always pretty aesthetic though, especially the coloured ones

>3d print

What now?

This

>"clack clack" read failed

I agree

Y'all got it easy these days.

Congratulations on your CD-ROM upgrade!

>tfw millenials will never experience first hand saving data to a 3.5 sounds like.

Or dial up sounds. Such nostalgia.

Yeah, except most shit wasn't that big though.

Even the cracked original Tomb Raider, which came around when burning CDs at home was becoming popular, was only like twenty disks, if I recall.

Plus, it was reasonably common to just take your hard drive to a friend's house and put it in his computer to copy stuff.

You never knew it either. First save medium I ever used was a cassette tape. Few later we got those amazing 5 1/4 floppy disks.

You've confused Millennials with Generation Z
Millennials would have been using 3.5" and even 5.25" floppies because computer labs in public schools in the '90s and early '00s had garbage donor computers from the '70s and '80s

this is true

Anyone remember Zip drives?

What took so long?

Why did it take so long?

Was it the lack of technology or the lack demand?

millenial is more broadly defined than that, born from 1980-1999ish
if you were born in the 80's you would have plenty of experience with 486 or P5 computers

Fuck man dial-up speeds were literally around 5 Kb/sec

FIVE my nigga

What, you didn't run a V.90 X2?

kek

I was a '95 kid, even I got to experience the floppy, VHS, audio cassettes, and all the big magnetic storage mediums towards the end of the century

It wasn't a struggle. It was pretty fun actually. I miss it.

>he had 4800 baud
Shit nigga there was a time when 300 baud was blazing fast

For real though it was only 5kb for a minute, most people still alive will associate dial-up with 14, 28 or 56kb

Ooh, look at the rich motherfucker here with the 56.6k modem. Tell me what a hard life you've had.

I still remember getting pissed off because call waiting would knock me offline.

I sure do! I have a Zip 750 external, but I can't find the power cord :(

>750

They started at 100, youngin.

Couldn't they have removed a few of those floppies and made a 128GB to 128MB comparison?

Programs took less space back then

tfw you're almost done loading images with your dial up internet and your FUGGING MOM kicks you offline to call someone

that image remind me when I was in elementary school keeping my qbasic programs there (fucking areas and volume calculators)

I don't even think kids nowadays deal with programs like that.

RAMEMBAR THE 90'S?? GUYZ I WAS ALIVE AT THIS TIME AND YOU WERENT VALIDATE MY EXISTENCE PLEASE REMAMBAR PHYSICAL MEDIA??

This, I was in 1st grade around 1994-5 and classrooms had green-screen Apple IIs mixed with Mac SE FD/HDs until 1998 at the latest. All my early schoolwork was saved on floppies and even those saw regular use until probably 2004. Flash drives were a thing but all the computers were so old they didn't have USB, so I still used floppies for a long time.

Yeah I had a couple.

They had an expiry date, where after a certain amount of time they would just die.

Floppies were always a POS. They were prone to dust and weak magnetic fields. I rather deal with old ass cassette tapes. (they were used a digital media for computers!)

>not holding a 256GB micro SD card on your fingertip

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You must be 18 years or older to use this website.

underrated

>5 Kb/sec
Wow that's fast. I remember getting mp3s off Napster at about 0.7 Kb/sec. 1.2 if I was lucky

remember getting a midi file from BBS through zmodem in 9600 bit/s

reeeeeee too soon
I'm NOT over it yet

i remember those days

>look at floppy
>there is a scratch

This isn't contrasting enough. Post a bleeding edge SD/micro SD with like a terabyte of space next to one of those giant 1980s hard drives.

>Phone call
>Someone answers
>Pic never loaded

Fuhh

You have to do that yourself.

But I'm sleepy.

Go to bed silly. :3

I'm a millennial and this is true. We were using beige Pentium 3 boxes with 15-inch CRT monitors in high school.

were they actually floppy? Like rubber or some shit?

>X2
the only vendor 56K standard left is Agere/Conexant K56Flex, USR btfo sadly
>Yes, the residual dial-up POPs in $CURRENT_YEAR are K56/V90/V92

>USR btfo

No shit? I still have a bunch of USR modems laying around.

Born 1994, I remember a class in 2006 or 7 when everyone was required to use a floppy disk for some project, even though all of the computers had USB by then.

The original 8-inch disks were contained in a soft plastic sleeve. It was soft enough that it could bend and be folded. So, yes. It was actually floppy. They later had a 5-inch that was still floppy. It wasn't until the next 3 1/2 version that they had a hard casing.

His lawsuit gives Redmond 30 days to give him the software or pay more than a half a billion in damages from a default judgment.

"The only sensible remedy is for Microsoft Corporation to supply the OEM version of its operating system by download from its website and confirmed by the key code which came with the computer," Dickman's filing read.

"Failure of Microsoft Corporation and its CEO (Satya Nadella) to provide this function within thirty days of the provided summons should yield a payment from the two defendants to the plaintiff of a remedy... of six hundred million dollars."

El Reg asked Microsoft for its response to the filing. A puzzled spokesperson declined to comment.

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>A puzzled spokesperson declined to comment.
CLEARLY HIDING SOMETHING!

You could of at least used cds you autist.
That's meaningless to millenials.
There's no point of reference because they don't know most files were in the kB. and text.

CDRW drives were a pipe dream back when 3.5" floppies were in widespread use, you retarded underage faggot.

Do you have any idea what a CD-ROM cost back in the 3.5" days, moron?

No. You don't. And that's why you made such an idiotic statement.

People born in 2000 are now legally allowed to post here, user
>yfw

The disk itself is still floppy if you removed it.

Fun Fact: I used to think 3.5" disks were also called hard disks.

stop pretending you fucking faker, it wasn't a struggle because there wasn't much to carry around

>be me
>10 y/o boy with zero knowledge of how programs size
>found this cool game installed in a cyber called starcraft
>I liked the game and bought a floppy disk to take it home and play it all the time
>copy the direct access icon believing that would be enough to play it (had no fucking idea back then)
>go back to cyber after discovering I needed to copy all the folder
>200MB Folder vs 1.3MB floppy disk

>mfw remember having to CHOOSE which handful of songs to put onto my RCA MP3 player

DONT HURT ME
NO MORE
NO MORE


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I had a 300 baud modem on my commodore 64.

didn't know the star code to disable

Everything did. All sierra games were under 10 disks.

>tfw iPod Nano 1gb held ~120 songs

>not connecting second hard drive as slave and moving it from computer to computer

fpbp

They should be called "hard diskettes" because they weren't ever floppy.

I still get that on KDE.
I moved a folder with 1000s of files over nfs and got a new "Could not change the permission for ____" popup for every single file.

What struggle? I think you are a kid and weren't around back then because I never had problems with the storage capacity of floppies. Yeah, sometimes software came on a lot of them but it was not a big deal.

NT for Nightmarish Terror

>struggle
the only struggle was convincing mediocre devs not to bloat up software with their pajeet-tier code. why have linux distros grown 2000% in size over the last decade exactly? they don't do anything now that they didn't before, not 2000% better anyway. websites unironically loaded faster on 56k than they do on modern DSL. if you don't have cable you've taken a step backwards in browsing speed. if anything the struggle with cocksucking human trash developers is only getting worse with the homan wave of curry coders from india and the SJW retards getting into tech now.

You're thinking of the plastic casing. The disk itself is still floppy.

The older ones actually were floppy.

Ah shit. I think I have a pack of those exact floppies buried around here somewhere. I remember I got them for school and thought they were hot shit.

>struggle
>disk just fits in
>it starts easy to push but a bit "textury", but in the end, you have to overcome that nice spring that ends with very satisfying *clunk*
>eject button use the same nice feeling spring
>even the sound is pleasurable, with those nice ticks and the stepping motor singing

>If using an Amiga computer or similar, the Drive was on a very, VERY comfy position

Ok, gotta agree. Popping floppys in and out was very satisfying.

2MB IBM (1.38 formated).

I started with a 2400 baud modem. I remember when we got 28.8 and later finally a 56k. All those days languishing watching bars fill up in Napster, 2-3kb/s. Goddamn what a time.

ahh, this brings back memories. used to ((borrow)) these from my mom's work and put wallpapers for my pc there. little did i know, i was downloading thumbnails from google search results. was woundering why i could put so many pics on it.

watching fake celebrity porn pictures load was always fun. it always seemed to stop loading right before the tiddy stripe so you would have to reload the page and start over.
>having half of a naked gillian anderson on screen and somebody opens a door down the hall
>close browser and wait until they go back to bed
>30 minutes later you're back to where you left off

I just wish we could have something like floppies again.
Even if it's just flash memory inside, I want the feeling of floppies.
Although I do also miss the comfy sounds.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FUCKIN GOT ME GOOD

i thought 4chanx was fucking out on me

I have one, it was the only option in the 80's besides burning CD's. But Linux won't recognize it now and I don't have the energy to get around that.

You can use other power adapters if the voltage matches and the amps are greater or equal. If you don't know what they are search the zip drives model number for a manual or power specs.

The math is right though, 92 disks x 1.44MB = 132MB. Yes I counted them.

I still keep floppies around because they are the best option for updating BIOS on some older computers.
I had a laptop (don't remember the kind) that couldn't install Windows XP because of old BIOS. It didn't even have a floppy tray so I took a removable one from an old Dell laptop, which strangely enough had a USB mini output, and used that to update BIOS with a floppy disk via USB.

I remember using the big ones that were actually floppy.

You have demystified a mystery that has bamboozled me for the last 20 years. Thank you friend.

Have respect for your elders

Silicon was in the micrometers

Wrong. The Millennial cutoff is considered to be from 1980 to 1995 as GenZ grew up with technology that literally shaped their lives (social media and smartphones etc.).

Saying someone born in e.g. 1998 is a Millennial is like saying they're also a 90s kid.

I will suck your dick for that drive, or at least the caddy. Not even joking.

diskette number 15 is corrupted

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LS120 is better

128 kbps mp3s

Suddenly i want a flash memory standard that uses floppy disc type cartridges, with the slide part exposing the contacts. Or maybe Minidisc size would be the best compromise.

Much more aesthetic than a pen drive. Though a lot of modern computers won't be able to fit it i guess.

At this point we're better off with hotplugged 2.5" sata drives. mite b cool to handle them like cartridges.

Born in '96 here, I honestly think I'm closer to Gen Z than the true definition of millennial.

I had a cell phone in middle school (yay tracfone), and in high school I had a smartphone with Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
Netflix with gf after school, people's nudes getting circulated, iMessage group chats... the impact of portable technology was huge.

I think my formative teenage years will more closely resemble that of someone born in 2006, vs 1986.

> high school I had a smartphone with Snapchat, Facebook
This is proof that 96 is clearly a different generation than Millennial. My junior year of high school was the year the first iPhone came out and nobody had one because they were too expensive. People didn't start getting on Facebook until after we'd graduated and gone off to college, it was all about MySpace and for a short time, Google+. We were still using MSN Messenger & AIM.

91 here. Millennial cuts off around 94, tops.

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eh, I'm 1997 so one of the younger millennials or older Gen Z depending on your definition
I guess either you went to a shit school or I went to a good one because we had what were either Pentium 3 or Pentium 4 computers in our computer lab when I was in elementary
I remember getting told to bring in a floppy disk one computer class. I went home and told my dad we needed a floppy disk, so he just took me to Circuit City or Staples and got me a pretty sweet 2GB USB stick that also served as a money clip, and had some poker game installed on it
I don't know where it's gone which really annoys me

CD-R was introduced in '88 and been standard since the mid-90s, senpai. Only a dummy would write anything but documents and other small files to floppy disks past that.

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Nothing needed 128GB though.

The largest piece of software I used to have, was Blade of Destiny for the Amiga, which took 8 floppies (+1 floppy for the saves).
And those were DD floppies, so only stored 720K.

Please explain. Is this a floppy+CD combination?

creative technology cd rom
model cr-521-c

You're on your own from here.

You have to know whether they're centre positive or centre negative

They are almost always center positive, but there should be a logo on the device indicating polarity.
- ---(o--- +
or
___
- - -

Correction:
___
- - -
Just means direct current.

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>centre positive or centre negative
-(+) or +(-)

I wish I could go back to that era goddamnit

center positive - ---(o--- +

8=====D

top kek

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>the 3D model file is probably larger than what an actual save icon can store

>tfw you can remember browsing porn sites at low speeds when your parents were away
Got a shit ton of viruses too

I was in 6th grade in 1998-99 and the computer lab only had Apple II and PC-XT clones. My classmates were very disappointed by that and mockingly said "This ain't no Pentium II! :D", but i was dork-gasming to the max over there. At the time those machines would've been considered completely worthless instead of "retro" and "muh nostalgia" like nowadays, but i still enjoyed them.

Maybe because the very first computer we had in 1993 was like this, but can you really nostalgia over something from just 5 years ago?

>born in 1993
>homeschooled
>practiced Latin translation on an ancient Canon laptop with a black-and-white screen
>saved all my translations on a 3.5-in floppy disk with a translucent purple casing

I need an excuse to throw a floppy drive I to my system
What's one modern use for a floppy drive that isn't for show

Also I'm in need of a boot floppy for my 87 Macintosh SE (might have had an internal drive. Can't remember) and am in need of guidance on what shit to write the floppy with

>trying to internet in Linux
>circa 2004
>use a 20 page long printout from school on how a winmodem works and how to spoof one into working on Linux even though it's considered impossible since it's 90% driver based
>never works
>do odd jobs for money
>buy pic related and glue a heatsink on the chip that felt warmest
>served me well for many years
I know the struggle.

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8 inch and 5 1/2 inch - yes.
3 1/2 inch - not quite floppy.

Oldest technology I've used personally was a 5 1/4 floppy, but my mother still has some boxes of punch card from her days programming at Arthur Andersen.

Is there anything in the world that can run punch cards anymore, even for compatibility's sake?

What's the difference between a computer and a woman?

A woman won't accept a 3.5" floppy.

Your mom did, though. Just ask your dad.

>You fucking kids
Stopped reading right there!

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the phone wouldn't ring if you were on dial up

At least it's still possible to install it

Wow that REALLY made me think

They were called hard discs for a time because the older 5.25" were floppy in structure.

>gutting an IBM for le hipster sleeper PC

Kids these days.

You fucking kids will never know the struggle

three clacks iirc

youtube.com/watch?v=V6dQxQBHiB0

I remember buying these for no goddamn reason apart from the colors, and then storing a txt file with random garbage in it. This was back in elementary school

I'm currently putting together a nice early 90s computer. Got a case with turbo button, an unknown (probably Pentium Pro) mainboard+CPU, dug out my 3.2GB Maxtor disk, SCSI CD-ROM drive and 5.25" floppy drive.
Seems like I binned the Voodoo1 in an act of stupidity during cleanup a couple years ago, couldn't find it in the attic. Neither could I find the PCI SCSI or ISA SCSI controllers I used to have at some point.

Next week I'll go to the local PC recycling/repair center and check for an ISA SB16, a SCSI controller, maybe a Voodoo, some extra EDO-RAM modules. Maybe I'll pick up the aesthetic case with 7-seg MHz display.

It's called a CD caddy. You put the CD inside the caddy, then insert the caddy into the drive. I never figured out why this ever was a thing, seems much more complex than a CD-tray, but they're cool as fuck.

Early 90s is 486dx4 territory. You've got a mid 90s uberworkstation.

I have a 128gb microSD

You must have been lucky, at my house not only would a call ring through while connected, it would drop the connection even without anyone answering it.

History failed us
we could have had this
take me back

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PLEASE INSERT DISK 2
THEN PRESS ENTER TO CONTINUE

Take me back too please. This was the coolest thing to happen to computing.

surely they use Word

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oh man. takes me back. my favourite disk was still a trusty black one i used for like 3 years. i still have it somewhere, haven't used it for 15 years. but i did have a bunch of coloured ones. used to be my favourite part of doing homework. it was so primitive even for the time, but for 11 year old me, it was badass.

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>Save icons

TRIGGERED

Nah he's using the original definition of millenial. We used to be called Gen Y or some shit. Then (((they))) kept on expanding the definition of millenial for some reason.

Then again I was still using floppies until about 2000 or so when I got my first CD burner. I don't know why but Zip drives never caught on in my area. If I just wanted to store something I used a HDD. Zip drives and the floppies I would have replaced with one were for transferring files to other people.

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>We could have lived in a world free of scratched cds, dvds, blu ray, etc
This is a failure of capitalism. It is heaper not to case them.

>It wasn't a struggle.

This so much. That thing could hold 1 million characters of uncompressed text. It could hold more midi files than I cared to listen to in a day. A few of them could install Windows 3.1. I could put a shelf full of books on this thing and mail it to you for dirt cheap.

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It's not very difficult to make a punched card reader, and it doesn't have to be particularly fast since you only have to import them into a modern computer once.

Very true, computers back then really couldn't take advantage of multimedia like we do today, so most things that you'd need to do would fit just fine on a 3.5".

i wanna dry hump that

I had the pleasure of moving some files to an old PC using diskettes recently. Literal bliss, the tactile feel is so great.

But can it run Oregon Trail?

Yeah, and you also rarely needed to transfer 132MB of stuff when floppy disks were standard.

>ye olde tymes of yonder
>a game roughly two hours in length was two megaBITS in size

>I mean, common people, it's [the current year]!
>A faux retro indie game with mixels and dubstep bleep bloop music is 200+ megabytes in size

Why is this allowed?

>all that wasted physical space

Only rich kids had USB flash drives back then

>being too poor to afford SyQuest/Bernoulli drives
I don't feel sorry for you at all, nigger.

One targeted systems with 512-640 KiB of memory.
One targeted systems with 2-4 GiB of memory.

It's not really difficult to comprehend.

one was made by good devs and one was made by lazy and greedy devs. modern devs arent worth the >$100k they are getting.

Top lel, what kind of computers use compact cassette format though?
I know tape is still used but not CC format.

I'm sure they use Word Online. Haven't seen the File menu, but wouldn't surprise me if it's just "save to server" or something.

If a AAA gayme artisan made it, I'm sure it would be. Can't have less than 1024x1024 texture, normalmap and specular map on it, after all.

Doesn't seem like something that should have to take more a kB or two if someone else did it, though.

The actual disk was still floppy, though. Of course, in every other country than Murica they were simply diskettes, so we couldn't care less whether they were floppy or not.

You have absolutely no idea what software was like back then if this actually what you believe.

Fpbp

Casette Tapes do not work well for data along with VHS. What does work however is Betamax tapes. The Russians attempted using them but ultimately the entire endevour failed.

Modern storage means the classic joke is no longer valid;

>whats the difference between a woman and a computer?
>A computer will accept a 3.5" floppy

This was my first though too.
But if you consider that 132 MB is almost exactly 1000 times less (and not 1024) it would make sense.

I understand this is for special older systems, but what kind of system is so old or important that it's hardware can't be upgraded but it absolutely needs to run a new version of Windows instead of just keeping the old one?
And who is the poor fucker who has to insert all 3711 floppies?

It's fake. But a lot of CNC machines and metal working machines and robots are still updated via floppy disks because they're that old, their instruction sets are small enough to fit on a disk and it's cheaper to replace parts of the machine than the entire machine. Of course, modern machines are now made with more than a floppy drive and serial connection, but when a machine can run you a few to several hundred thousand dollars, you're not upgrading them until they have a catastrophic failure.

Even Nuclear systems were still updated via floppy.

edition.cnn.com/2016/05/26/us/pentagon-floppy-disks-nuclear/index.html

>Early 90s is 486dx4 territory.
Maybe for some lucky guys. I got my first 486 (66 MHz) in 96. Before then I was using a fourth-hand 8086 model that I bought from a friend.

Reliability wins over functionality every day of the week for mission critical computing.

I miss worn out floppies failling the crc checks.

>48 kb games
>takes 4 minutes to load from cassette
tfw you realize you're a living fossil

4 mins? Mine took half an hour.

Nostalgia for old computing is just that - the reality is modern hardware and operating systems are everything you used to dream of and more.

Webm semi-related. Its a webm of the oldest software I currently have installed.

psssshhhh nothing personel kid

fsuae is an Amiga emulator that even emulates the sounds

My 10-year old niece was telling me about 3D printing they do in school.

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>formatted floppy is 1.38MiB
You dun goofed.
Also you forgot about SuperDisk being able to format regular floppies as 32MiB.

>tfw AFX made music with the Spectrum as a child.

It was less complex than a CD tray.
A simple mechanical eject mechanism was easier than stepper motor controlled tray eject.

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That's a big 128 GB, I have a microsd that size and you can get bigger I'm sure

jej. put me in the epic screencap

I still rock optical media - albeit limited to dvd - entirely because of ancient vidya I own asnd have not sought out a crack for. There is something oddly calming about playing games off their original disc.

Jaz for more storage

A steady "tick, tick, tick" sound as it moved from one track to the next was the good sound. If you were reading a lot of files, "tick, tick, honk-honk, tick, tick, tick..." because it had to return to the FAT at the beginning to get the sector list for the next file.

The bad sound was a lot of "honk-honk" as the head went back to the start and retried seeking to the track it was trying to read.

it's called "progressive scan", look it up.

It's the way you can tell a JPEG is really fucking old, because it will slowly become clearer and clearer; newer ones were made after high speed internet because you no longer had to wait 50 seconds to see a picture.
those were the days

Living it

>not hoarding floppies to sell it to nostalgia hipster fags 10 years down the line

A fetish I had that I didn't even know I had.

I think I prefer the *kerchunk* sound of a 5.25" drive over the *chick* sound of the typical 3.5" drive.

Quality

It's a shame that computers are so much less tactile than they used to be. I think it's part of the reason I have such a fetish for click-heavy mechanical keyboard switches. I want to feel like I'm really interacting with the machine.

'Millenial' is a catchall for people young enough that the baby boomers don't understand them.
Though it's worth noting that a lot of this varied by where you live and even just the environment you grew up in. I'm a '98 babby but my first PC for years ran Windows 98. I still remember the future magic that was our first P4 Windows XP machine, with a DVD drive and everything.

Ok, but imagine using all that space for storage

Anybody got an idea why this board is stuck in a boot loop? It barely gets past enumerating RAM and then resets. It will only output video if two RAM modules are installed, with a single one it doesn't boot at all. Neither with three or more.

Porn1.Wmv
Porn2.wmv
Porn3.wmv
Porn4.wmv

All 16 sec clips

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Found the problem... fug.

I'm 100% sure I've seen this meme on 9gag before, faggot

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Didn't know Cred Forums had vintage tech threads, this is nice.

Got a lot of old macintosh stuff from an old computer repair shop in town. Got a monochrome monitor and color display for $20.

What track is that

They're not wrong, though.
Back then optimization was everything. Today everything is done on top of 500 layers of abstraction and when shit inevitably sucks, the solution is only
>lol, just buy a better computer.

Monolithic Studios - the bonus track in the game.

good

yeah A:/ and B:/ are reserved for floppies on winblows. Maybe next versions might remove support

I hate CDS because they're way too fragile, can be scratched easily, and are fucking circular. How can you fit a circle in the corner of a drawer?

flop flop
not 3,5 ones though
>tfw camera captures your 50hz led room light

Can't find the power cord? You're living in the days of Ebay and Amazon. Just look up the model number.

youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI

What were you doing on 9gag user?

Also, Marja Allen got hot.

Mah nigga. Got a whole bin full of cartridges.

1994 here. Am I the last millennial or the first gen z?

The millennial generation goes to the year 2000, retards.

fixed it
Just need to install a battery at some point for keeping BIOS settings.

Yep. Born 1989 and upgraded to a Pentium 2 years after using 5.25" drives on our old beater. Kept the dot matrix printer though

Do they even sell floppy disks anymore?

Yes. You can get them even at Walmart

It was fun because it was a struggle. If it's free withs worthless.

get mine off floppydisk.com.

I lost so much data on floppy disks. It was stupid as shit. Zip Disks were a dream for their time though.

you had smaller files back then faggot

member lords of the real? member beyond dark castle? beyond dark castle was excellent

I remember from my childhood dos days that some of those 100 demo cds you could get had porn in the directory. You normally ran the cd with a separate on disc program but there was plenty of penthouse and artwork of that 80s fantasy lewd artist on it and my parents never knew.

>Do they even sell floppy disks anymore?
>Yes. You can get them even at Walmart
You can buy a disk drive, but you can't buy disks brand new from a manufacturer any more (Sony was the last company to make them.) Bu you can still find some for sale on Amazon, for example.

>Cannot delete 0112pgin: There is not enough free space.
>Delete one or more files to free disk space, and then try again.

It's like it didn't realize what I want to do.

In word online there is no save button it just werks and saves for you

You can relive them. On TOR.

those webm's brought a tear to my eye.

But they absolutely are wrong, do you think the mass migration to Windows NT and Unix-likes in the mainstream was some kind of industry-contrived conspiracy to drive beefier hardware sales? The software industry in the '80s and '90s was incredibly "greedy" and full of terribly optimized, insecure low-quality shovelware and money grabs, you only think otherwise because all you hear about now are the best of the best that shine through the cracks.

All of that optimization wasn't something incredibly skilled developers did out of charity, perseverance or simply as a natural result of their own abilities, it was a necessity to ensure that their products could actually run on the wide range of mostly obsolete, anemic systems people were maintaining far past their means because the act of "just buying a better computer" was $2,000-$3,000 for a mid-range system that wasn't even guaranteed to be able to run the next crop of major software releases in a few years as it was rendered utterly obsolete. They needed to squeeze out all of the speed they could get, and it often involved sacrifices in the realms of portability, maintainability, security, product longevity and beyond.

Those sacrifices weren't a problem at the time, because networking was in its infancy and software was generally expensive, meaning most people bought it once and intended to use it for as long as they continued to use the system/platform. But not anymore. Even in developing countries, most users are running multi-processor systems with gigabytes of memory and storage, and they expect security, bugfixes, updates, new releases with new content and features, and continued evolution of a product, which an unreadable mess of mixed assembly/low-level non-portable code does not facilitate easily. Shaving a few microseconds of execution time off of something that already executes in a second or less, or saving a few megabytes of storage isn't worth the trade-off.

What game is that?

i am telling them naughty fucker

damn

are you stupid? I am millennial and I used 3.5 when I was a kid. Stop trying to look old, retard.

Looking at memes so that I can spot 9gag-browsing faggots like that dude. It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.

>128GB of intangible shit that doesnt exist
vs
>132MB of intangible shit that doesnt exist

nothing of value is lost, computers were a mistake.

how can data be real if we can't touch it??? who am I even talking to? nobody. this is not real.


Digicucks B T F O!

it IS not real. waste of time. useless.
The Matrix has you.

>he doesn't recognise NFSII

Underage B& please go and stay go.

the model itself in its most detailed form, is I thing 32 points, the program you model it in or render with should add any slight curves there would be in program.

as for texture, depending on what you target, 720,1080,2160 determines what resolution you will use, it just has to be high enough that when you are not windowlicking it you don't see pixels. the bit of metal would likely be a reused asset though so that may be FAR higher resolution then the rest of it.

I've always wanted a complete PS/2E

>reee adding detail to things makes me feel intimidated and irrelevant

>Shaving a few microseconds of execution time off of something that already executes in a second or less, or saving a few megabytes of storage isn't worth the trade-off.

t. Java bloatware code monkey

you know you've won the argument when the only reply you get is a reddit spaced shitpost 7 hours after you closed the tab

ARJ A ARCHIVE.ARJ -V1440 -R *.*

i was born in 1990, making me a millennial, and i used floppies for a number of years out of necessity
when i was younger, not everyone had a cd burner, or usb ports. i got a 64MiB usb flash drive when i was 12 (2002), which mostly replaced floppies for me, though floppies still got some use for a couple more years for interfacing with other people's older computers

I feel old looking at this picture.

in 2006/7? no, usb drives were common and cheap by that point

>bring school assignment on floppy to print at school
>computer cant read the data

>Tray cd rom
wew lad are those the one where you have to p=ut the cd into a case and then put it in.

all i remeber is they are slow as balls compaered to modern ones.
I also remeber them being very unreliable

>permissions bug
oh that was a fun one lol too bad they patched it with in a week.

2.5" floopy looks cool.
hard to find a working one now tho

I remember.
>apple
Binned
you dumb ass each one of these machines was 5mb of storage
so its 10mb.
holy moley can you even count?

>tfw. never owned a zip floppy drive
>tfw.zip drive couldof btfo a cdrom
>tfw nomies betrayed us

that's enough internet for today.

Patrician animu taste my guy

>It's the way you can tell a JPEG is really fucking old, because it will slowly become clearer and clearer; newer ones were made after high speed internet because you no longer had to wait 50 seconds to see a picture.
Bullshit. JPGs loaded from top to bottom since the 90s, gifs where the things that became clearer.

>They were called hard discs for a time because the older 5.25" were floppy in structure.
They were never called hard disks. A hard disk always was the magnetic spinning hard drive since they were introduced.

>save icons
fpbp

>there are people who died before they could experience the wonders of modern computing

I know without being able to read it that those disks are branded 'imation'. Oh the memories

neither of you are completely right
jpeg's have a progressive mode, just called progressive, not "progressive scan", and it's not an indicator of how old they are
jpeg's do load from top to bottom, progressive or not, the only (...used to be) common web format that loads from bottom to top is bmp
gif and png have progressive modes as well

I used to tie up my parents phone line no end. Used to use DCC so I could resume, often downloaded for days on end just to get a game

>132 MB
fatal mistake: assuming that you can read ALL of them

>eah A:/ and B:/ are reserved for floppies on winblows. Maybe next versions might remove support
How stupid are you?

>t. aaa gayme artisan

Don't play dumb, HDDs/optical drives/memory card readers/etc always get assigned letters starting at C:, but if you were to connect a floppy drive it will get A:.

Doesn't mean you can't change a drive's letter. I used to change my HDDs' letters to A, X, Z because I was an edgy kid too.