You could staple them anywhere in a significant portion of the corners outside the circle inhabited by the disc and be fine, but I think you’d want to to remove the staple before getting it stuck in a drive.
I don’t miss that loading sound though, or the dreaded clicking when it was hunting for corrupted data.
You think that’s bad? The secretary at my first job was told to keep that 5 1/4 floppy safe. So she stapled it to a cardboard divider in her binder.
She’s in a rest home telling stories about the time she scared her co-worker by making a duplicate of an important disk and stapling it to a binder.
You could staple them anywhere in a significant portion of the corners outside the circle inhabited by the disc and be fine, but I think you’d want to to remove the staple before getting it stuck in a drive.
I don’t miss that loading sound though, or the dreaded clicking when it was hunting for corrupted data.
How’s your back doing?
i made it… six years older than my dad when he was told he needed his first back surgery so i got that going for me.