Have you ever used floppy disks?

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  whiz.kid.aniket

  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

  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

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

  @AKD....yeah😁😁
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  silverscorpion

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

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

  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

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

  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

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

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