Comments on: Geek Artifacts: Unboxing 8 Inch Floppy Disks Discovered In My Cubicle http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/ A Guide To Everything Geek In The City Of Brotherly Love Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:30:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: blogUT | University of Toronto Blog » Blog Archive » A Look at Technology Over the Years http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/comment-page-1/#comment-6842 blogUT | University of Toronto Blog » Blog Archive » A Look at Technology Over the Years Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:02:00 +0000 http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/#comment-6842 [...] from here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Rate it!  Loading [...] [...] from here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Rate it!  Loading [...]

]]> By: Liz http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/comment-page-1/#comment-4373 Liz Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:07:46 +0000 http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/#comment-4373 Hey, can anyone read the data off one of these for me? I found one in my dead cousins important papers and I sure would like to know what he wrote. Hey, can anyone read the data off one of these for me? I found one in my dead cousins important papers and I sure would like to know what he wrote.

]]> By: Joe http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/comment-page-1/#comment-3890 Joe Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:56:28 +0000 http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/#comment-3890 Haha. I have computers that use these! In fact, I'm running out of 'em. Does a 3M floppy beat an 8" floppy? These puters weigh 100lbs. The drive weighs 6lbs! Haha. I have computers that use these! In fact, I’m running out of ‘em. Does a 3M floppy beat an 8″ floppy?

These puters weigh 100lbs. The drive weighs 6lbs!

]]> By: http://motherboard.hopto.org http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/comment-page-1/#comment-3185 http://motherboard.hopto.org Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:16:56 +0000 http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/#comment-3185 I still have an Apple 2e running!! It works fine! I never have any problems with it. I think that floppies last longer than hard drives. I have boxes upon boxes of 5 1/4 inch floppies. On my server, with 1 gig of ram, two 80 gig hard drives, and two dvd drives, I also have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive which STILL WORKS!! I still have an Apple 2e running!! It works fine! I never have any problems with it. I think that floppies last longer than hard drives. I have boxes upon boxes of 5 1/4 inch floppies. On my server, with 1 gig of ram, two 80 gig hard drives, and two dvd drives, I also have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive which STILL WORKS!!

]]> By: Gil Megidish http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/comment-page-1/#comment-2237 Gil Megidish Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:23:18 +0000 http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/#comment-2237 SOOOOO WANT! SOOOOO WANT!

]]> By: dave alexander http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/comment-page-1/#comment-1239 dave alexander Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:13:02 +0000 http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/#comment-1239 Please don't throw these out, if you are planning on doing that let me know as I want them! You don't know how difficult it is to find a stash of these...but there are still 8" floppies being made today believe it or not! We found a special purpose for these old 8" floppies; they hold 7" records very nicely and create a nice, safe package for the record. My bnd Multicast did a release like this and everyone loved it! You can download the mp3s of this out of print 7" release at obliq.net. Here are some pictures of our (mis?) usage of this technology! ;) http://obliq.net/images/obq03.jpg --davealex Please don’t throw these out, if you are planning on doing that let me know as I want them! You don’t know how difficult it is to find a stash of these…but there are still 8″ floppies being made today believe it or not!

We found a special purpose for these old 8″ floppies; they hold 7″ records very nicely and create a nice, safe package for the record. My bnd Multicast did a release like this and everyone loved it! You can download the mp3s of this out of print 7″ release at obliq.net. Here are some pictures of our (mis?) usage of this technology! ;)

http://obliq.net/images/obq03.jpg

–davealex

]]> By: Suki http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/comment-page-1/#comment-1235 Suki Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:15:31 +0000 http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/#comment-1235 I actually recall rewiring a logic board to program a computer. From there I moved up to 80 column cards in a hopper--none of the cards had writing on them, but I could read Hollerith almost as fast as english. It was a big thing when we finally got printing on the damn cards. Then came the 96 column cards, the mag tapes, the drums (man those suckers were heavy) and finally a screen and direct entry (and storage!!) of code. What a treat. Yeah, ok, I'm OOOOOLLLLLLLDDDDDD! Suki I actually recall rewiring a logic board to program a computer. From there I moved up to 80 column cards in a hopper–none of the cards had writing on them, but I could read Hollerith almost as fast as english. It was a big thing when we finally got printing on the damn cards. Then came the 96 column cards, the mag tapes, the drums (man those suckers were heavy) and finally a screen and direct entry (and storage!!) of code. What a treat.

Yeah, ok, I’m OOOOOLLLLLLLDDDDDD!
Suki

]]> By: Tom Woolf http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/comment-page-1/#comment-1232 Tom Woolf Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:03:14 +0000 http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/#comment-1232 The last time I saw a working 8-incher like that was in my old college days... Well, I have seen one since, but it was folded over and useless***. :-P *** Seriously - I used to work at GE, and somebody from Puerto Rico has sent one of those disks to the US with data. Unfortunately, to make it fit in the envelope they folded it into quarters... The last time I saw a working 8-incher like that was in my old college days…

Well, I have seen one since, but it was folded over and useless***.

:-P

*** Seriously – I used to work at GE, and somebody from Puerto Rico has sent one of those disks to the US with data. Unfortunately, to make it fit in the envelope they folded it into quarters…

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]]> By: CrunchGear » Archive » Grab a moist towelette for some hot diskette unboxing http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/comment-page-1/#comment-1230 CrunchGear » Archive » Grab a moist towelette for some hot diskette unboxing Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:30:07 +0000 http://geekadelphia.com/2008/07/08/geek-artifacts-unboxing-8-inch-floppy-disks-discovered-in-my-cubicle/#comment-1230 [...] Oh yeaaaah. Mmmm, that’s the stuff. Check out the melt-your-face-hot unboxing of a ten pack of single side, single density floppy disks over at Geekadelphia. [...] [...] Oh yeaaaah. Mmmm, that’s the stuff. Check out the melt-your-face-hot unboxing of a ten pack of single side, single density floppy disks over at Geekadelphia. [...]

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