I wonder, what happened to it. Do anyone else feel the same?
I also remembered and completed the meme with a magnet stuck to the fridge.
As I worked in a university computer lab briefly in the late 1980's, I had "captured" a few early Macintosh viruses on a couple of floppies. The recipient of my floppy collection seemed delighted by that, ha ha.
Oct 2025 The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
A long time ago I had to get a file off of a 3.5" diskette that was corrupted. Linux would panic but NetBSD just came out with the rump kernel. So I installed NetBSD and used rump. Rump crashed a few times but the system stayed up. So after a few tries I got about 80 - 90% of the document.
I miss the convenience and cheapness of diskettes.
A single disk won't even hold a single photo from the device's many-megapixel camera, but it works fine -- Android, Apple, whatever.
It is approximately the funniest fucking thing ever to have a floppy drive whir to life while connected only to a smartphone, and I strongly suggest to anyone with the means to make the time to experience it.
Or is the medium itself damaged by time passing?
I'm asking because during Covid I dug out my old Commodore 64 and managed to read a few disks and created a copy of some that were still working.
On the other hand, there are many good disk drive emulators for the Commodore 64 now and these can be had for fairly cheaply (like a SD2IEC with a Epyx FastLoad combination), which will avoid the whole problem. I still use floppies with my 128, but I also push disk images and programs to it with a 1541-Ultimate.