If you want to know how bad the Explain Guys are on mastodon, I was joking about how if “a foone shows up at your door with a USB stick, shoot them, because the real foone carries floppies” and pointing at my avatar (same as the one I have here) to explain what type of floppy I’d bring.
Then someone misunderstood a joke I made about not knowing what a 5" floppy was (they’re 5.25" inches, as far as I know no one made a 5.0" floppy) and decided to explain, to ME, about what 5.25" floppies were.
Yeah please explain what floppy disks are to me, oh reply guy, I clearly don’t know.
I didn’t get my own chapter in Floppy Disk Fever, the book on nostalgia for and the modern reality of floppy disks.
Yeah! Thanks for explaining what floppy disks are to me, dude!
Oh, yeah, I heard about those, they’re like, 3D printed save icons.
Absolutely amazing. Did they get a chance to tell you about keyboards?
… did I spy with my fuzzy eye an LT-1 disk in that photo? I used to have the notebook those were used with, until I did something really stupid and broke it.
i wouldn’t have considered the 20MB bernoulli cartridge a “floppy disk” but i’m pretty sure that’s what’s in the far back right.
we had the 10MB drive when i was a kid, and i am still sad about having lost the data that was on it, but what we had for reading it was a custom one-off driver for the Zenith Z-100, etc, and we just… did not have any suitable tooling, etc, and I didn’t know about foone so I couldn’t send it in for archiving.
Can I get a sanity check on this because when I was young, I learned that the difference between hard disks and floppy disks was the stiffness of the data medium, not the case.
You know, I think you’re probably right, and I think the bernoulli carts are actually floppy media, I just… for whatever reason, I have them filed under “cartridge” rather than “floppy”.
Probably because they’re from the same era as SyQuest cartridges which are hard disks.
This was always my understanding, since back when I first asked “if a 3.5” disk isn’t floppy when I hold it, why do they call it a ‘floppy’ disk?“ (before i had taken apart both)
