I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)
I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)
I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.
Label one “Important Documents” and then attach it to your refrigerator door using a fridge magnet
Contact TDK about extending that limited lifetime warranty.
Put all your precious documents on the disks and then rub a magnet on each one of them to make sure they are properly energized. The stronger the magnet the better.
Start a porn collection of high quality pictures. Be sure to zip span them across all disks… all 1 photo
Write your own copy of Windows 10, minus the bloat. You'll probably have 2 floppies left
With those in hand, start waving them around maniacally and shout "WHY IS IT CALLED A FLOPPY IF IT'S SO DAMN HARD!?"
Several years ago, I found a 3.5" floppy in an old desk, so I wrote "(My company's product) Production backup - DO NOT LOSE" on the label, and then left it on the floor in a main hallway of our office.
In my mind, it hopefully made a few people chuckle, but my real dream was that someone picked it up and tried to return it to the development team.
Lan party coasters
- Register you product for warranty on the company website.
World's best swap drive.
When Windows 95 was still sold on floppy, it came on 25 fucking floppies in the box.
So I say put Windows 38 on them.
Sell them to someone who will test and resell them to the airline or medical industry... Manufacturing is a likely customer as well, plenty of legacy equipment there that's airgapped and still running decades-old hw/sw.
Youtube warning, some Boeing 747s
(This is a wrong answer since you only have a single pack. If you had several cases, you might actually be able to make a buck)
open it in a non-destructive manner, switch every read/write lock slider, put it back together.
Cyberpunk chainmail breastplate
Press them to make a real world save point.
THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM!!!
You could use them as a memory card for ps1 games.
Gift them as cup coasters.
manually etch the bits yourself. Just use a hammer and chisel
Go play a very public and dramatic round of disc golf
Anus... Right into the anus...
Throw them at junior sysadmins like shuriken.
Inserting your floppy is a time honored tradition. Have a few too many beers, and give it a go. You have 10 chances to succeed, it seems.
It says they're high density, so use them as ammo for your rail gun
Use them to make a bootleg copy of Duke Nukem to share with your friends. That's what we used to do with them lol
Butt stuff.
Fuck being incorrect. Buy an old AKAI sampler and make music from floppy disks libraries, I still do with my S-1100. Wrong answer would be to ritually burn them...don't.
Finally update device drivers in Windows the right way!
crunchy but old snack
Boof them. Don't think about it, just boof em.
find the most complex AI model file you can put on it
Be wild! Copy that floppy!
Thank Lord they come already formatted.
Sell them. There is a market for that.
Print your business cards on them.
You build your own floppotron of course
Add Nutella, enjoy?
Write “If found, please return to Minot AFB, ND c/o Duane” on them & scatter them in various airport restrooms across the US.
Epoxy them into coasters and sell them as save icon coasters.
https://www.tdkrfsolutions.tdk.com/support/warrant-terms
Probably not the same terms as when they made the disks, but it's their terms on limited warranty now.
Also, hand the disks to anyone asking you for your email for marketing purposes. Tell them all your information is on the disk.
Put them in a mdadm raid array
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Put them in a raidz2 situation
Tape the other hole and format them in DD (0,72MB) format.
Toast them and have them with PB&J, obviously
Use them
Abort, Retry, or Fail. But all at the same time.
Get ten USB floppy drives and set up a raid:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080117032102/http://phoenix.cc.edu:80/MegaFloppy.htm
Get them hard!
You’ll want to download and install the most up-to-date drivers. I believe this model benefits from a slight overclock too, so maybe look at purchasing a decent aftermarket cooler
Throw them away and find a shugart compatible disk
Use them to do the longest en passant in the history of chess
could make a nice, nutritious breakfast
Make little finger sandwiches out of them and have a tea party.
Shuffle them like playing cards
Live action reboot of ReBoot
Stick them on a wall like an artpiece
Zork zork zork zork zork zork
Oh, man. This brings me back to my Amiga 500 days. So slow to load, but I loved that thing. Wish I hadn't sold it.
Flopp flopp flopp flooooooooopp
Throw them around your office like frisbees.
Store your important data on them.
Write MP3s to them and use them to play one song in a modern car.
(I saw a video of someone playing a clip of music using a USB floppy drive)
Your should install Lady Sia, a game published by TDK on it
Zip tie them into a 2x1 rectangular box with a flip top lid. A drill may be needed.
Copy them
Eat it
Attach one to a light pole with a paper that says "Government access codes"
