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Lunabell

(6,082 posts) Sun Mar 17, 2024, 01:17 PM Mar 17

My company uses a floppy disk symbol to save your work. [View all]

Isn't that cute? Does anyone under the age of 25 even know what a floppy disk is? Maybe they teach about it in history class. 😆 🤣

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My company uses a floppy disk symbol to save your work. [View all] Lunabell Mar 17 OP

soon children will not even know lapfog_1 Mar 17 #1

Are people actually proud of not knowing much? randr Mar 17 #2

Remember when they were actually floppy? Basic LA Mar 17 #3

Yes! Lunabell Mar 17 #4

Thanks for confirming! Basic LA Mar 17 #6

One of my tasks at work was to remove the second-shift hard disks ... JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 17 #10

When I started at my firm in the mid 80s, we had two word processing "stations." rsdsharp Mar 17 #12

When I started working in offices, same time frame, intheflow Mar 17 #36

All of the secretaries had IBM Selectrics, but ours had no memory. rsdsharp Mar 17 #38

A coworker once suggested we call those crunchies EverHopeful Mar 17 #13

8 inch 4 1/2 inch. and the "hard floppy". hard drives intialy were the size of washing machines . AllaN01Bear Mar 17 #22

That was the progression all right. Basic LA Mar 17 #26

Yes! sdfernando Mar 17 #34

We were there at the start! Basic LA Mar 17 #35

There Were Two Sizes ProfessorGAC Mar 17 #42

Thank you! Basic LA Mar 17 #47

Boy there's a trip down memory lane. Permanut Mar 18 #51

Not just one floppy disk, two. One floppy for program, the other for data. PufPuf23 Mar 22 #61

I have heard of but have never seen a slide rule. OnDoutside Mar 17 #11

My engineer dad had one. Lunabell Mar 17 #15

i have one . havent used it. there are slide rule apps for iphone and desktops. some still usem, AllaN01Bear Mar 17 #23

I will give up my slide rule when they pry it out of my cold, dead, stiff fingers...... lastlib Mar 17 #37

Had One In HS ProfessorGAC Mar 17 #43

Why would young people know? Elessar Zappa Mar 17 #41

Can you even still buy them? I still do use these disks though, but it's been a long time since I've bought SWBTATTReg Mar 17 #5

I don't know. Lunabell Mar 17 #7

Yes, I do miss the familiar tones of when you dial in to a computer link, it was so 'catchy' I guess. The only reason I SWBTATTReg Mar 17 #8

Amazon sells them, but they aint cheap getagrip_already Mar 17 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author AllaN01Bear Mar 17 #24

staples and i understand game stop does .if my information is correct. AllaN01Bear Mar 17 #25

I still have three or four unopened boxes of floppy discs lpbk2713 Mar 17 #14

Collector's items one day? Lunabell Mar 17 #16

Here's your inheritance kids! JoseBalow Mar 17 #20

The first computer I ever used was in grade school JoseBalow Mar 17 #17

Oh my! Lunabell Mar 17 #18

Instead of a stack of punch cards JoseBalow Mar 17 #19

Wow. Lunabell Mar 17 #29

allan01bear , behave . this is so rife for puns . i rmember those as well AllaN01Bear Mar 17 #30

When I took a BASIC language course in college.... lastlib Mar 17 #39

Ahhhh, Fortran. A long long time ago! Amazing that we all had to program literally in all kinds of languages, SWBTATTReg Mar 18 #54

Saw Those ProfessorGAC Mar 17 #44

Somehow I acquired one of the punch machines with a full roll of paper tape. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 22 #59

I wouldn't know where to begin to get one to work with a modern device JoseBalow Mar 22 #60

The MS Word and Excel programs I use Danascot Mar 17 #21

I've been working with a woman in my senior moving job and I have thrown away so many of these discs kimbutgar Mar 17 #27

our united families once went to canada and stayed in a bnb. the owner was still using her apple 2 e to do her job. AllaN01Bear Mar 17 #32

I still have some. Of course, I also still have a Wang programming manual. LoisB Mar 17 #28

I'd never thought of that. I'm conditioned. Can we PLEASE not use Teams? underpants Mar 17 #31

how many of u remember teleprinters . chunck chunck chunck and the bell . ding. i forget the bell symbol AllaN01Bear Mar 17 #33

The Associated Press machines at our university newspaper.... hunter Mar 17 #48

Teletypes! Now you're talking. Basic LA Mar 18 #52

The 5 1/4" floppies were the personal computing standard for a time Shermann Mar 17 #40

It's still the international "save" symbol Polybius Mar 17 #45

And someone in this very group still posts "Dial-up warning" in their thread titles Polybius Mar 17 #46

lol cats , note , some still use dial up as internet connection so is not completely lost. AllaN01Bear Mar 17 #49

Stop! Polybius Mar 18 #50

hem google search and these answers please . untill we get full service yes it is a thing. AllaN01Bear Mar 18 #53

Wow. Lunabell Mar 19 #56

Part of infrastructure plan HoosierDebbie Mar 19 #57

crosses fingers and toes that biden gets re electid to complete this mission. AllaN01Bear Mar 20 #58

k&r n/t area51 Mar 19 #55

My avatar n/t Yavin4 Mar 22 #62