• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      2 days ago

      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.

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        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.

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        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.