That looks a very nice machine. ATI video card too I think.

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Very cool! I received disks that were perforated with such a tool many many years ago, and always wanted to see what one looked like.

Funny thing this is! 🤣 What we did during the days, was using a hot (not red hot, just hot enough to melt the plastic easily) nail of appropriate size (4mm diameter?).

But remember, its not just the notch. The media was 1MB, not 2MBs and those "hacked" floppies were always notoriously unreliable.

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... those "hacked" floppies were always notoriously unreliable.

Yeah, because the non-hacked ones were so reliable and would never fail at 99% on the last disk of a set of 10 when uncompressing a large file or anything... 🤣

Bought a Pentium D 945 for $3 to replace the p4 670 i destroyed

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tayyare wrote:

... those "hacked" floppies were always notoriously unreliable.

Yeah, because the non-hacked ones were so reliable and would never fail at 99% on the last disk of a set of 10 when uncompressing a large file or anything... 🤣

🤣 Omfg all the times I've done that... I thought I would never look back when I transferred to modern computers (back when I was still using floppies and old Pentium machines regularly) but here we are still using the old systems. This time out of something other than necessity though. 🤣

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I thought I would never look back when I transferred to modern computers...

Me too 😁 I sort of (used to) hate floppy disks. When CD-RWs and later usb flash drives became cheap enough I never used floppy disks anymore. And the other day I actually went shopping for a set of new floppy disks since all my old ones were unusable. Up to a year ago I would never imagine that in 2015 I would be looking for more floppy disks. 🤣 Anyway, my parents still had one unopened box of 10 so they gave it to me. Unfortunately after all this time the glue in the labels has almost dried out, so the labels don't stick to the floppies. Otherwise, everything works. Since this is the "Bought these" thread, here it is:

Very nice! 🤣 Love the MTV advert on the front. 😁

I'm too young to have grown up with floppies; everything was CD-based, and it is only recently that I've actually owned any floppy disks at all.

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I'm too young to have grown up with floppies; everything was CD-based, and it is only recently that I've actually owned any floppy disks at all.

I was born in fall 1982 and my very first computer ever was an Apple IIe with monochrome display and 5.25-inch soft floppies for everything.

My first actual PC was a 286 that only had a 40 MB hard drive and lots of those 5.25" soft floppies around. I remember "upgrading" to the 3.5-inch "high density" "hard" (but still plastic) floppies and how much more reliable they were than the 5.25" ones that seemed to go dead with bad sectors when you looked at em the wrong way or accidentally breathed near them.

Personally I was born in 1990 so I grew up with 3.5" diskettes, the first computer I used was a 486 Packard Bell (see photo) running DOS and Windows 3.1.

However I didn't get a "modern" computer until 2009 when I bought a Pentium 4. 🤣 Before that I was using a Pentium Packard Bell tower and two Compaqs one of which was a Pentium II.

I started with a Celeron 333 MHz system, and went to a hand-me-down Athlon XP system a year or two later.

My latest for another socket 7 build... 😀

Up to five years ago we still needed floppies here at the University I attended to so we could get our assignments in and out some ancient PCs with finicky USB support xD

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Up to five years ago we still needed floppies here at the University I attended to so we could get our assignments in and out some ancient PCs with finicky USB support xD

My Uni still needs floppies for certain pieces of lab equipment.

Uh does this count as retro hardware? 🤣 I just found this at my local thrift store mixed in with all the puzzles.

Since the PCjr was my first introduction into the wonderful world of retro computing and I was fortunate enough to buy a complete system in it's original packaging for only 10$ I have a bit of a soft spot for these machines. So when I spotted this for 2$ I HAD to have it. 😁

(Also is it just me or does the guy look like Mit Romney?)

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Very cool! I received disks that were perforated with such a tool many many years ago, and always wanted to see what one looked like.

Funny thing this is! 🤣 What we did during the days, was using a hot (not red hot, just hot enough to melt the plastic easily) nail of appropriate size (4mm diameter?).

But remember, its not just the notch. The media was 1MB, not 2MBs and those "hacked" floppies were always notoriously unreliable.

I would not waste rare 720KB diskettes with that unit.. I think 1.44MB diskettes are more common now.

No of course I won't 🤣 but I still wanted one to put on my shelf. 😜

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I think there is the very same thing that turns 1.44MB diskettes into 2.88MB...

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I think there is the very same thing that turns 1.44MB diskettes into 2.88MB...

Good luck finding a 2.88MB drive though. I wish they had caught on

There are 2.4MB (5.25") drives too: http://www.ebay.com/itm/371280704001

I don't know how or why, but I always found 5.25" floppies to be much more reliable than 3.5".