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(▪‿▪)DoctorWhoGuru(▪‿▪) 2012/09/15 04:11:28
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  • October 2012/10/07 01:13:50
    Yes
    October
    +1
    what happened to those days??? Hey you know what I have a computer in my garage that still take floppy disc not the hard kind either that actual floppy disc... lol I am right know a mac book air lover... first actual floppy disc s before encased in plastic
  • John Wa... October 2012/10/11 23:01:28
    John Walker II
    +2
    Would you believe I got one of these darn'ed disks to work by inserting the disk without the cover/envelope? The 'disk' didn't last very long but plenty long enough to get everything off of it.

    Won 5$ off of that bet too.
  • October John Wa... 2012/10/12 00:47:35
    October
    +1
    cool I would take on the same bet you did...
  • Bill 2012/10/07 01:12:01
    Yes
    Bill
    +1
    loooong time ago!!~
  • timothy.hill.14 2012/10/07 01:10:09
    Yes
    timothy.hill.14
    +1
    I remember thinking how tech savvy I was back in highschool when I got my own disk to save assignments on. Wow was I ever naive.
  • Lordoftheringsrox 2012/10/07 00:11:06
    Yes
    Lordoftheringsrox
    +1
    I loved playing computer games on them!
  • Solid Snake 2012/10/05 19:46:05
    Yes
    Solid Snake
    +1
    To destroy the GW AI.
  • Chibi D 2012/10/05 11:29:13
    Yes
    Chibi D
    +1
    Oh yeah. I remember that old s't. Like dial-up internet, can't say I miss it.
  • Tim Terror 2012/10/05 09:34:02
    Yes
    Tim Terror
    +1
    When I used to own one if these. It was cassettes before that!!!
    c64
  • duns 2012/10/05 08:44:16
    Yes
    duns
    +1
    As a kid, yes.
  • Rimvydas_M 2012/09/21 11:53:48
    Yes
    Rimvydas_M
    +1
    many years ago
  • Nellie-TheQueenOfCraziness 2012/09/19 21:36:29
    Yes
    Nellie-TheQueenOfCraziness
    +1
    Not since my elementary school years, by the time I was in middle school they were gone.
    I had a Camelot game that had to be played using a floppy. I remember in elementary school we'd have one floppy disk filled with different math games, one with science games, whatever. I don't remember what the game was called. There was this one science game though where you had to make plants. So you'd have to do the math to figure out how much of what to put in the plants to help them grow, at least I vaguely remember it.
  • ehrhornp 2012/09/16 18:55:38
    Yes
    ehrhornp
    +1
    Is this a test to see how old we are?
  • Linkums 2012/09/16 15:50:47
    Yes
    Linkums
    +1
    Only the 3 1/2 inch floppies though.
  • MusicMan 2012/09/16 12:27:16
    Yes
    MusicMan
    +1
    Your youth is showing. One of my computers still uses 3.5s.
  • Alexander T Steward 2012/09/16 10:28:47
    Yes
    Alexander T Steward
    +1
    Back in the Mid-90s just before CD-ROMs became common place.
  • P. Sturm 2012/09/16 07:37:15
    Yes
    P. Sturm
    +1
    I've worked with computers since 1969 and PCs since they got big enough to be useful for extended math work.
  • John Walker II 2012/09/16 05:30:39
    Yes
    John Walker II
    +1
    the image is from wikipedia where it only shows 8-inch, 5 1⁄4-inch, and 3 1⁄2-inch floppy disks, but it's missing the 11".

    I used to work on a mainframe that used 11" drives. That was... an experience.
  • knoodelhed 2012/09/16 04:18:28
    Yes
    knoodelhed
    +2
    Have owned an old Power Macintosh that ran OS 7.5, back when 32 megs of RAM was monumental and a 1.2 gig HD was enormous. Windows '95 was all the rage on the PC side.
  • Paul V.... knoodelhed 2012/10/06 04:15:41
    Paul V. Tupointeau
    +1
    Win 95 was awesome. I had some great programs for it. Where I work the IT nerds are keeping a computer running with Windows 3.1, to see how long it will run.

    I miss DOS 4...
  • cookiemonster 2012/09/16 01:52:30
    Yes
    cookiemonster
    +1
    I used to have a Gateway computer that too floppies
  • Paul V. Tupointeau 2012/09/16 01:02:17
    Yes
    Paul V. Tupointeau
    +1
    5.25" was the oldest kind I've used. I still have a computer that can use 3.5" disks, and I have a bunch of them as an archive (I hope they're still good).
  • Paul V.... Paul V.... 2012/10/06 04:11:58
    Paul V. Tupointeau
    I remember my employer had a macintosh computer that had no hard drive, I think a Mac 2. The program was on one 5.25" floppy and the output went onto another. Little 5-inch screen. He gave it away: it came back. Ended up using it as a doorstop.
  • Tw!stəd_S!stər 2012/09/15 21:19:58
    Yes
    Tw!stəd_S!stər
    +2
    486 computer
    The first computer I've ever touched.
  • VERYwiseguy 2012/09/15 17:04:28
    Yes
    VERYwiseguy
    +1
    My 1st computer.
  • flrdsgns 2012/09/15 15:19:45
    Yes
    flrdsgns
    +1
    Yes, back in the dinosaur days of computers
  • Fran-Halen 2012/09/15 14:04:38
    Yes
    Fran-Halen
    +1
    state of the art ...then !
  • NarcolepticGoat 2012/09/15 11:56:39
    Yes
    NarcolepticGoat
    +1
    They were a great step up from using the tapes like we had to use for the Commodore 64

    (my first computer)
  • Tom R 007 2012/09/15 10:22:43
    Yes
    Tom R 007
    +1
    We used to use them all the time at school.
  • JMCC 2012/09/15 09:55:59 (edited)
    Yes
    JMCC
    +4
    heck I remember even these...

    heck remember

    heck remember
  • John Wa... JMCC 2012/09/16 05:36:02
    John Walker II
    +2
    Remember how easily they shattered if you didn't pick them up right and dropped one?
  • JMCC John Wa... 2012/09/16 10:08:24
    JMCC
    +1
    Thankfully I never had that happen...
  • John Wa... JMCC 2012/09/17 23:51:40
    John Walker II
    +1
    I saw it, once... not something you easily forget.
  • JMCC John Wa... 2012/09/17 23:54:42
    JMCC
    +1
    I'll bet - they told me how much they cost...!
  • John Wa... JMCC 2012/09/17 23:59:56
    John Walker II
    +1
    To give you an idea of what happened, the stack was faulty and flew apart right on the spindle. Shredded the machine in the process...

    Not a pretty picture.
  • JMCC John Wa... 2012/09/18 00:07:56
    JMCC
    +1
    OUCH!!!

    Disk AND drive completely totaled...
  • InvaderXion420 2012/09/15 09:01:40
    Yes
    InvaderXion420
    +2
    If you say no, you went to school when dinosaurs were the method of transportation most commonly used ROFL!
  • Ryuuen 2012/09/15 08:02:35
    Yes
    Ryuuen
    +1
    Of course! ah. my gradeschool days :))
  • Country Gentleman 2012/09/15 07:11:35
    Yes
    Country Gentleman
    +1
    2 of the 3 you have pictured.
  • AmericanVirus 2012/09/15 05:48:54
    Yes
    AmericanVirus
    +1
    I've used 'em all

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