Have you ever used floppy disks?

Ankita Katdare

Ankita Katdare

@abrakadabra • Oct 22, 2024
In the digital world, things are getting extinct at an unimaginable rate.

I remember using a 3.5inch floppy disk to transfer data from a friend's computer to mine. That was around 10 years back.

Now that I think about it, I wonder what would have fit in a floppy disk at that time? 😲
Today, I think even DVDs are becoming insufficient to store data.

If you have used floppy disks too, post your comments in this thread. 😛
Share your experience.
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  • whiz.kid.aniket

    whiz.kid.aniket

    @whizkidaniket-5IiBCq • Oct 25, 2010

    I am still using floppy disks in some of my Hardware Lab Practicals. we wrote couple of programs in ALP(assembly language) to read boot sector and root directory of a Floppy Disk.😁
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Kaustubh Katdare

    @thebigk • Oct 25, 2010

    Well, yeah! I'd bring a set of 10 floppy disks to store stuff. However, the floppies would eventually get corrupt in about an years' time 😔
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  • Ankita Katdare

    Ankita Katdare

    @abrakadabra • Oct 25, 2010

    @Whiz: Really? Thats awesome. I suppose you are conserving the digital values. 😁
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  • whiz.kid.aniket

    whiz.kid.aniket

    @whizkidaniket-5IiBCq • Oct 25, 2010

    @AKD....yeah😁😁
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  • silverscorpion

    silverscorpion

    @silverscorpion-iJKtdQ • Oct 25, 2010

    I've used floppy disks during my school days.. I used them for storing my assignments and some presentations I made..

    That was when I started learning what a computer was, and what can be done with it..

    And one advantage to floppy disks was, we can come to school without finishing the assignment, and can always tell, "The floppy got corrupted".

    The teachers always seemed to believe it. 😀
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  • CIVILPRINCESS

    CIVILPRINCESS

    @civilprincess-308hDv • Oct 25, 2010

    even i used floppy discs for assignments in my school time(7th and 8th standard) 😁
    every summer we were given assignments and we had to submit most of them ,which were presentations, in the floppy discs 😀 every summer me and my sis together would spend around 4-6 floppy discs 😀
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  • Gurjeet Singh

    Gurjeet Singh

    @gurjeet-LUX7B1 • Oct 26, 2010

    i have used flopy disk when i was in 10th ,but most of the time i faced the floopy disk corrupted.. 😔
    have any one use zip disk ..which is larger than floopy disk aroud 3.5 MB data?
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  • silverscorpion

    silverscorpion

    @silverscorpion-iJKtdQ • Oct 26, 2010

    cooldudeiet
    i have used flopy disk when i was in 10th ,but most of the time i faced the floopy disk corrupted.. 😔
    have any one use zip disk ..which is larger than floopy disk aroud 3.5 MB data?
    I've seen my dad use a zip disk, though I never used it myself.
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  • vinod12345madhu

    vinod12345madhu

    @vinod12345madhu-FwUje1 • Oct 27, 2010

    i used it till my 8th class and i still have the floppy disks and the drive which works but partially
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  • Mr.Don

    Mr.Don

    @mrdon-92OwlG • Oct 27, 2010

    I used them about 8 years back to play dave game but now 8gb pen drive are n't enough to copy a game.
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  • Saandeep Sreerambatla

    Saandeep Sreerambatla

    @saandeep-sreerambatla-hWHU1M • Oct 28, 2010

    Ditto here!

    I have played Dave game for couple of times!!

    But ignoring the magnetizing effect I spoiled many floppies by magnetizing them.. 😀
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  • raj87verma88

    raj87verma88

    @raj87verma88-ZpL2Wn • Oct 28, 2010

    Yes I have used them and not only the 3.5 inch ones but also the 8 and the 5.5 inch versions.
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  • whiz.kid.aniket

    whiz.kid.aniket

    @whizkidaniket-5IiBCq • Aug 12, 2012

    Nowadays I m using Floppy disks as coffee coasters!!
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  • Ramani Aswath

    Ramani Aswath

    @ramani-VR4O43 • Aug 12, 2012

    I have used punched cards, punched tapes, 8" floppies (they did flop), 5"ones and the 3.5" ones. I still have a lot of those with many programmes we developed in basic. I still use slide rules occasionally more to keep my hand in. Also good old paper and pencil for quick order of magnitude calculations.
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Kaustubh Katdare

    @thebigk • Aug 12, 2012

    I've used the 5" and 3.5" ones. I've also watched movies on video 'cassettes'. 😒
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  • Prashanth_p@cchi

    Prashanth_p@cchi

    @prashanth-p-at-cchi-rg0z63 • Aug 13, 2012

    Yeah! Used them during early school days. We had a xerox and a printer shop at that time and ours was the only one in the area. Many used to carry Resumes and other documents in their Floppy and get it for printing(1/4th of the time it used to be corrupted). All that i knew was to insert it and open the document and print it. It was only in my High school we were taught Computers. Then, me and my friends used to break the floppy and tried to see what exactly is inside that black rectangle.
    I also believe that many of us would have looked through the disc(thinking that something would be visible 😛 ) by sliding the aluminium plate at the head of the floppy.😁
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  • Anoop Kumar

    Anoop Kumar

    @anoop-kumar-GDGRCn • Aug 13, 2012

    Used to submit 1st semester C programs.
    and later last to last year broke lots of Office Floppy disk to watch solar eclipse 😲

    *
    The_Big_K
    I've used the 5" and 3.5" ones. I've also watched movies on video 'cassettes'. 😒
    video 'cassettes', reminds me , *watching action packed Mithun Chakravarti/ Dharmendra movies on VCR😁
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  • gohm

    gohm

    @gohm-F3UUpP • Aug 13, 2012

    I don't use them now, but I do remember using the older, larger floppy disks, as well as the dat cartridges.
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