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Wenny ,

Maybe you can try these open source dvd burners.

prettydarknwild ,
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the disk that lies inside a floppy disk (a 5.25 floppy disk judging by the size)

aquielias ,

Copy A: . B:\
floppy disk days long and gone

Iron_Lynx ,

Looks like the physical storage medium of a 3 1/2 inch diskette. Which is usually called a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk, except with this one it’s a bit of a misnomer, since this iteration has a rigid case, unlike the older 8 inch and 5 1/4 inch versions. Or should have, it appears to be removed in OP’s case.

Gobo ,
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The disk itself is flexible, hence the floppy disk. In contrast a hard disk had rigid platters, hence hard. The outer casing has nothing to do with it.

Iron_Lynx ,

You’re technically correct, the best kind of correct. And that said, from a daily-use perspective, the 3½" type has a rigid case, i.e. not floppy. So the storage medium is floppy, while the whole object that the user is expected & supposed to interact with is not. That’s why I find “3½ inch floppy disk” to be a bit of a misnomer.

The 8" and 5¼" types have soft carriers, which is why I have no qualms calling those “floppy disks.”

CCF_100 ,

That looks like a floppy disk with the protective casing removed…

wewbull ,

Beagle Bros was a software company that developed useful quirky software for the Apple ][ computer. They had a schtick that all of their manuals and promotional materials were styled like flyers from “old West” salesmen. They were actually pretty funny if you were in on the joke.

MinimumChips ,

12 megabytes of RAM, 500 megabyte hard drive, built-in spreadhseet capabilities and a modem that transmits it over 28,000 bps

nouseforaname ,

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    Loulou ,

    Games and stuff

    tym ,

    Nobody ever asks why it’s the C:\

    Pour one out for A:\ and B:\

    lemmyvore ,

    Originally, personal computers only had a floppy disk drive, which got letter A, and later models could have two floppy drives, so A and B. When hard disk drives appeared they got assigned to letter C (and typically D for a secondary HDD). E then became customary for optical drives (CD-ROM, DVD-ROM etc.)

    chronicledmonocle ,

    Me, an average Linux enjoyer: “What’s a drive letter?”

    kate ,

    sda, sdb

    _stranger_ ,

    hda, hdb

    old.gif

    Eufalconimorph ,

    /dev/disk/by-uuid/*

    new.png

    kate ,

    new.avif

    al177 ,

    /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0

    older.fli

    Taleya ,

    Buffalo bill works there

    Imgonnatrythis ,

    Hope this is just a Boomer hating shit post. Pretty sure it is.

    ElBarto ,

    Let’s just believe it is because the alternative makes me sad.

    Imgonnatrythis ,

    Yeah. Btw, wtf is this thing?? https://img.fruugo.com/product/8/20/597379208_max.jpg

    Loulou ,

    It’s an ear-heater.

    TheFerrango ,

    My heart aches for those floppies’ demise.

    notoftenthat ,

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Bros

    The box is from some fancy Apple software from long before most of you were born.

    The contents are just the skeletal remains of assorted species of the Save Icon.

    UhBell ,
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    Wow this makes me feel old

    Frog-Brawler ,
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    Trash now.

    moose ,

    As everyone else said, they’re floppy disks with the plastic case removed.

    Since you found them in a church, could they have belonged to a church bell system? I’ve seen other church bell systems in the past where the songs came on weird mediums.

    This is just a random guess, I don’t know why anyone would remove the casing.

    Alperto ,

    either that or the porn is hidden there

    cassetti ,

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    pufferfischerpulver ,

    What? You can fit a bunch of naughty jpgs on 1.44mb

    cassetti ,

    Hahaha, true, you could fit maybe a few jpg photos on a floppy

    koorogi ,

    There were even digital cameras that used floppies to store the photos they took.

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