I just was given 15 1.44mb floppy disks. Wat do, /g/? Is there anything I can still use these for? Or are they just useless?
Why even bother asking? You know the answer is they're trash
>>51683359
windows 98 fdisk boot disks
i got you senpai
I have a case that still has floppy drives in it. Everything works too. It has Win95 as the OS. Don't use it for anything at the moment though.
Thinking of building a sleeper out of it. One day...
You can store 21.6MB of data, that's something.
No but seriously keep them to protect your table from mugs and cups.
>>51683359
Sometimes they can be useful for old hardware. Get a USB floppy drive.
It could be a cool coaster
square ninja stars in case you need to hit an intruder in the face with them
Put one HD porn .webm on each of them
>>51683406
What do you mean?
Smoke them
Use them to make music, anon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk_XaJ7gE4Q
I was just today gathering stuff to take to the flea market and realized I'm finally ditching my last floppy drives. Might as well trash the floppies too, haven't touched them in years.
>>51683359
costers
>>51683671
Making a badass desktop out of an old case from the mid90's. That way it looks like a old POS but in reality is a beast of a machine.
Put that in the simplest of terms. :)
Guess you found somewhere to stick your child pornography OP.
>>51683359
>I just was given
Stopped reading
Learn proper semantics
>>51684444
>upset
Continued reading
Don't be upset senpai
Store them in your workshop inventory so you can upgrade your power armor, senpai.
>>51683407
Floppy disk coasters. That sounds cute as fuck senpai
You could decide and encrypt a file along a series of floppy disks.
>>51685002
*devide
>>51683359
Into the trash it goes.
>>51683359
RAID6 them in a bunch of USB floppy drives and make them play music.
>>51683372
Why are you on this board if you have no interest in technology?
>>51683359
Not sure if you want to do something with them regarding their original purpose but I have a load of them in the garage back at my parents place and I stick 5 of them with hot glue like a cube with one face open to make a pencil holder
burn them
>>51683378
>not saying
i got you kaz(oku)
>>51683359
dismantle them and play frisbee.
>>51683359
Ask for a few dozen more.
>>51683359
>Install new software on them
>Build a time machine
>Go back in time
>Sell copies of them make profit
damn, if those were dsdd disks I'd offer to buy them. It's what my synth/sampler uses.
>>51683359
Load patches onto your 1980s synths
>>51687488
Don't copy that floppy!
>>51683359
1. installing DOS on legacy systems
2. low level hard dis tunning disk
3. PLOP boot floppy for shit that refuses to boot from USB
http://www.floppyswop.co.uk/
use it to store passwords (encrypted)
Get Stallman to sign them.
Smh desu senpai
Install Doom
Alternatively, put one in the spokes of your fixie
Take the IR filter out of a webcam and replace it with the internal floppy disk material to make an IR webcam.
they can be useful as boot disks if you want to fix an old ass computer
>>51685438
This
>>51687488
i thought windows 10 doesn't have usb floppy support anymore? or is that windows 8?
>>51687510
Son u got some srs shit
I love how the linux kernel still has complete support for floppies and you can still format and mount them natively.
>>51683359
Go work where I used to work. They still need the goddamn things. Pic very related
>>51691010
I don't know why, but for a second it looked the Mythbusters garage...
>>51687782
>woz
>>51691010
looks like arabic written on the head
calling fbi and nsa brb
>Install plop linux
>make old computers boot off of usbs which don't support usb booting.
>profit
The only reason to have a floppy drive is to pull the data from discs before you throw them away. Read / Write times are ridiculously slow. They're not even kinda worth keeping around.
>>51683359
we use them to store balance and tracking data for testing on AH-1Ws
>>51690908
Floppy drives and ZIP drives still work no problems on Windows 10.
>>51683359
1.44MB disks only really have practical uses anymore if you're into older hardware
>data transfer to and from non networked 286-P6 era PCs, 68k macs, and other pre-USB/Zip hardware
>boot disks for Pentium/P6-era and older systems and contemporary operating systems
>ERDs for Windows NT systems
>BIOS flashing on older systems up to Core 2 era (I think)
>older software installers that are hard-coded to run from A:
>older cameras that stored images on floppy disks like the Sony Mavica
That's about it. Even as a collector of old shit I don't really use floppy disks that often anymore except for ERDs and boot disks, they're slow and tiny as shit even by the standards of the hardware they were used with. Zip disks, cartridge hard disks, networking et al. are way better for pretty much everything but a fresh install.
If none of that shit applies to you, then they're pretty much coasters.
>>51690908
USB and internal 3.5'' drives are still supported just fine. I believe Windows 10 also has software support for 5.25'' drives (they even made an icon for them), but finding a system new enough to run 10 with a controller that supports them is another thing.
I tried fitting my system with one but I couldn't find a SATA power to molex adapter sitting around.
>>51691058
It's the high bay of the NASA sounding rocket facility at Launch Complex 36, White Sands Missle Range.
>>51691058
It says "Galeazzi". Dr. Galeazzi was the principal investigator for that mission.
