Post #3795091
2026-07-13 22:08 UTC
i'll just keep hoping someone recreates floppy disks some day. i know there's a lot of stuff involved, especially with the actual magnetic materials and putting them on a cookie (the disc inside the caddy itself), but it feels like it should be conceivable in a world where people still make cassette tapes and someone is manufacturing nixie tubes again. it shouldn't be as hard as getting CRT manufacturing going again would be.
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@inkandashes@lgbtqia.space 2026-07-13 22:21
@wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe I still have floppies at home, 3.5-inch ones for a 90's pc that I miraculously still have, and 5.25-inch floppy disks for the commodore 64. I haven't used them in a long time. I've hearing stories of how bit rot is happening now, and I honestly fear for the commodore 64 ones. The contents for the 3.5 inch once were all copied to disk a long time ago, but with a commodore, you can't easily do that.