I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.
Put all your precious documents on the disks and then rub a magnet on each of them to make sure they are properly energized. The stronger the magnet the better.
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)
Store your important data on them.
Click on them to save your files.
Just carry one around with you and whenever something important happens or you are about to do something risky, pull it out, press it with your finger and loudly say “Save”.
Edit: Bonus points for carrying a huge cardboard mouse pointer to click with.
Edit 2: I really should read all the replies before starting to type.
Hitting the save right before the murder spree.
Big open world RPG protagonist vibes
Label in sharpie as “Bitcoin password” and superglue to the sidewalk in a busy area. Watch people try to pick up.
This is 98% the right answer, but you drop them somewhere that keeps them intact, and believable enough so that people take them, and spend the rest of the weekend going to thrift stores trying to find an external floppy drive, and the next month trying to figure out how to get their iPhone to mount it.
This but put your own floppy drives up on local listing sites for ridiculous prices. Lmao it’s almost too evil.
That’s more like a scam than a prank
¿Por que no los dos?
This is the right answer. You failed hard.
Stuck to the fridge using a hard drive magnet!
Yeeessssss…
Cover the paper label with packing tape (cheap mans laminate).
Use quick set epoxy for a better bond.Alternatively, you could write
- “Someone help me I’m trapped in here!”
- “Nuclear attack scenarios”
- “You put this disk here to save your life, do not ignore”
Get ten USB floppy drives and set up a raid:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080117032102/http://phoenix.cc.edu:80/MegaFloppy.htm
Shuffle them like playing cards
Dude. RAID.
If this is wrong, I’m not sure I want to be right.
Don’t think I’ve ever picked out harder while taking a shit! 🤘
I am in awe
Oh my gosh, that’s incredible. It’s so cool to compare it to This one from 12 years ago
open it in a non-destructive manner, switch every read/write lock slider, put it back together.
Your should install Lady Sia, a game published by TDK on it
Whatever you do, as soon as you crack it open get your nose right up there and inhale deeply.
Plastic offgassing mmmhmmhm
Delicious cancer
Aaahhhhhhhh the aroma of 1995.
The cleanest breath you’ll ever take
Nah, probably smells like cigarettes
Sell them. There is a market for that.
Throw them away and find a shugart compatible disk
Mount nine of them on a square board so that they’re all focused on a single point for a mild solar furnace.
Use the last one to look at yourself, the proud owner of a mild solar furnace.
You… don’t know what a floppy disk is, do you?
I do, I just don’t pay careful attention to details and just run with what I think things are saying.
My first computer was an Atari 520ST. No hard drive (its OS ran off a chip), and every program ran off a floppy. And your storage was on a floppy.
Yeah, I know floppies. I used to have shoeboxes of them.
What kind of floppies are you thinking of? the very little metal on those discs aren’t that reflective.
I was too far in the future, using CDs. Floppies, wow.
Now I’m going to have to rethink my whole thing.
Use them to do the longest en passant in the history of chess
