Floppydisk.com – a website that still (now) sells floppy disks
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#2It’s an interesting story: https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-s...
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#3I wish I would have known about this a year or so ago. I was cleaning out my fathers stuff and tossed dozens of floppy’s for lack of a better way to handle them.
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#5Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32824038
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#6I wish I would have known about this a year or so ago. I was cleaning out my fathers stuff and tossed dozens of floppy’s for lack of a better way to handle them.
Hopefully this doesn't sound too mean, but "lack of a better way to handle them"? I went on Amazon and searched "floppy reader" and had dozens of hits of external USB floppy readers in the $10-$20 price range (and could probably find one even cheaper if I spent more than 30 seconds looking).
Was there something special about these floppies that made them difficult to handle?
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#7I wish I would have known about this a year or so ago. I was cleaning out my fathers stuff and tossed dozens of floppy’s for lack of a better way to handle them.
Hopefully this doesn't sound too mean, but "lack of a better way to handle them"? I went on Amazon and searched "floppy reader" and had dozens of hits of external USB floppy readers in the $10-$20 price range (and could probably find one even cheaper if I spent more than 30 seconds looking). Was there something special about these floppies that made them difficult to handle?
I wonder if floppy disk drives nowadays can just read once at insertion and cache the puny 1.38MB in memory. And have some battery backup to write if the power goes out during unmount procedure (The floppy drives on Macintosh didn't have the eject button and you had to drag the diskette to the trash to unmount it).
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#8If you have weird legacy hardware that needs floppy disks, I wouldn’t buy new media. In my experience most disks made after the mid-late 90s are unreliable and won’t last more than a couple formats before developing bad sectors. I’m not sure why this is, maybe the disk factories stopped maintaining their machinery when sales stopped growing. New old stock disks from the early-mid 90s are definitely the way to go IMO.
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#9Best part is their floppy to usb drive service:
> Then, add the time back to you via USPS first class mail. Not fast enough? We offer expedited and download service at an additional cost. [1]
Additional cost to sync a file in Dropbox. Apparently, it's a lot harder than mailing a USB drive. But hey, they sell floppies, what was I expecting!..
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#10I wish I would have known about this a year or so ago. I was cleaning out my fathers stuff and tossed dozens of floppy’s for lack of a better way to handle them.
Hopefully this doesn't sound too mean, but "lack of a better way to handle them"? I went on Amazon and searched "floppy reader" and had dozens of hits of external USB floppy readers in the $10-$20 price range (and could probably find one even cheaper if I spent more than 30 seconds looking). Was there something special about these floppies that made them difficult to handle?
Them being a large bulk of plastic? I don't think the OP was concerned about the contents but of throwing out a bunch of plastic that could have been valuable.