Who else can smell this picture?
Why lock them in a case when you could just slide the plastic square to lock the disc? Security was built right in
Sometimes it’s about not wanting it stolen physically.
But then again this whole box is small enough to just carry off so I dunno.
Why… why… why are the disks upside down?
Still more secure than Flock’s shit.
Also I had one of those… The plastic… The color…
gotta leave the key in the tower too so i could pretend to start it and drive it as a kid using my dads computer.
I was able to unlock those with a letter opener.
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I have one still from my childhood and I never had a key. The lid flexes enough to bypass the lock.
Spent some time imaging a bunch of floppies from my late father last summer, and I noticed that on every single 3.5" floppy box, the keys were the same. The locks had same bitting.
…also just noticed that the single 5.25" floppy box (of Commodore 64 floppies) I have at hand that even has a lock is currently unlocked. And the key is at my parents’ place. …have to check if the key is the same as the rest when I visit the next time.
As a kid I figured out most of those tubular key locks that were used to disable the keyboard/power/HDD all used the same key too.
Checkmate hackers.
Safe and secure. Just like our digital lives today!
Well, to be fair, that’s a hell of an air gap. And those things were very safe, not even the Lockpicking Lawyer can open those.
after paying for an upgrade to nt, some win$lop messed up date strings and the parts department freaked out and called the police to dust keyboard for prints. i ridiculed those clowns for months
Floppys were the ultimate in security because if you looked at them wrong they become corrupted.
I had to use floppies to bring my programming assignments to university in early 2000s. They were so unreliable, I had a rule to copy every assignment on at least 3 drives. I’ve asked them many times to setup an FTP, so students would not have to struggle, but they would not listen.
That’s funny yet odd. I use floppy disk still to this day for my 200aml cnc plasma table. It’s the easiest method to load the gcode on. The rs232 is to much of a p.i.a. I used to have an issue when I used a USB floppy drive into my laptop. I ended up finding a pc with a dedicated floppy drive since then. I’ve had zero issues. Wich is also more surprising that floppy disks even work around the big ass high voltage transformer for the plasma power source. The big servo motor drives and the welders in the shop.
I remember taking my first GIS course and having to buy ZIP discs for each project around that time. That ended up being an expensive class.
Also, the lab PCs re-imaged every time they shut down, so if the PC crashed you had no way to recover the data if you hadn’t written it to the zip drive, which we usually only did at the end of the day because they were slow.
We basically had a revolt to get the university to unlock the USB ports for us to use those fancy new flash drives the next year.
You must have started using them at the tail end of their life when stuff got cheaper including the drives.
Bad CRC for the win!
Stop sticking them to your fridge with a magnet
Stapling 5¼" disks to reports was another whoopsie.
Or using a binder clip on 3.5" disks.
I always thought that was legend.
If the staple is near the corner it’s perfectly fine, the disc itself is round in a square sleeve. So the corners have nothing in them
One person downvoted… “Don’t you DARE put a staple through a floppy disk!” Lmao
But that’s how mom shows off my rust codebase! :(
But the slide is so fun to fiddle with! Click clack click clack, why doesn’t Commander Keen run anymore!?!
TBH I fidgeted with those slides a lot and don’t recall fucking my shit up.
Same; amazing stim toys.
Back when shit made sense. OneDrive, eat your heart out
What kind of sense is there in storing your floppies with the shutter at the top?
the seals weren’t that good so storing them facing down for long periods of time made them prone to data leaks.
Less chance of dust and debris falling between the shutter and the rest of the disk. Plus, that was just naturally the top of the device when you pick it up. It’s easier ergonomics to pick the floppy up from the sides and feed the top into the drive. Also the shutter did stick up a little bit, so if you placed them shutter down they can wobble and buzz in the container with slight vibrations (like say, from a computer sitting next to them). Bottom down makes it more likely that the shutter will get damaged or scoop material into the disk when moving them.
We also just kinda did it that way.
What? You want to stair at some indistinguishable grey rectangle instead of this cool mechanical flap?
There were supposed to be labels on them. That was half the fun if opening a new floppy. And a solid third of them would have been erased AOL disks.
It was the way of The Ancestors.
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me! I was there when it was written!
Service accounts and RBAC has taken you for an absolute fool!
Service accounts? You mean service principals and managed identities
For some reason I have never seen one of those where the spare key was not attached to the primary key 🤔
That’s because all of the other instances had the keys get lost and the owners had to break them open and buy new diskette cases.
Break it? You.could just push the hook from below and the whole lock rotated.
You mean to tell me if you lost the keys you could just break them open? I threw away countless locked cases full of diskettes.
Break them open? You mean you actually locked the dust cover?
I just threw the keys away.
A year’s supply of save icons.
Mate, don’t give them ideas. The enshittifiers literally will implement “save tokens” into an app as soon as it occurs to them.
They already monetized it into subscription and cloud stuff.
Yeah but they can always limit that subscription to a certain number of saves
