I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.
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Use them to do the longest en passant in the history of chess
Your should install Lady Sia, a game published by TDK on it
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.
Now I want to do this at my job… I actually have a box of 5.25" floppies somewhere…
Buy a USB floppy drive for each one and then create a RAID 0 disk array. It’ll be super quick and gloriously noisy.
For anyone not familiar… That would give you 14.4 MB (1.44 MB formatted x 10) of capacity. The rated speeds for a floppy drive is 1000 kilobits per second. So if you did a Raid-0 (striped), let’s just say that gives you 10,000 kilobits per second. We convert transfer speeds to storage speeds (8 bits to 1 byte)… Means 1.25MB/s. So best case, it takes you about 11.5 seconds to do a full transfer of the 14.4MB. it actually be much slower because this is best case scenario.
So you’re saying we just need a few (hundred) dozen more disks and drives? Look out Seagate, you’ve got a zombie competitor coming.
Goodness, the noise
But when that noise is used in the right hands …
Hand them to zoomers as 3d printed save buttons
Sell them to zoomers as 3d save button coasters. $19.95 each
Load virus on to banking system to embezzle fraction of cents on each financial operation.
Don’t forget to make up a Da Vinci virus to sink ships and blame it on hackers in case shit hits the fan.
OP said wrong answers only.
If fucking Citibank has one goddamn floppy drive living in a building somewhere I will shove a Frisbee down my throat until I can’t see it anymore.
Like in Superman 3?
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.
Put them in a mdadm raid array
Kind of hard to give right answers to something that time has rendered utterly useless. I guess you could sell it as an antique
Saw a post on mastodon in the last day or so that someone dug up a network card for the old 486 they had been working on getting back to life. Might be a use case there, as well as in aviation and medicine - fields that move exceptionally slowly and tend to have expensive equipment with long lifetimes.
Make little finger sandwiches out of them and have a tea party.
Copy them
Thank Lord they come already formatted.
Use them
Anus… Right into the anus…
