My floppy 3.5 inches.....

[T40ORA]

Sorting out the office and I've found about 150 of the damned things.

Is there a use for these now, or are they just good for the garbage? I won't use them; I'll check the ones with data to see if there is anything useable (although I doubt it as they must have been sitting there for nearly 10 years and if I haven't needed it in this time it probably won't be of import) but half seem to be unused.

[annodomini2]

They're still popular in factories and laboratories for older systems such as; CNC machines and Oscilloscopes etc where they need a floppy to transfer information.

There was an article (I think on BBC), where operators were complaining about the disk manufacturers stopping production.

If you have to spend £100k+ to upgrade a machine £2 on a floppy seems nothing.

[T40ORA]

Hmm. I wonder how to find out where to donate them?

[Mazdarese]

Pull the metal sliding guard off, and collect all the springs. They're ace for removing splinters and sticking into the gaps between your teeth.

[ccr32]

Mazdarese said:

Pull the metal sliding guard off, and collect all the springs. They're ace for removing splinters and sticking into the gaps between your teeth.

PH advice at it's finest

[T40ORA]

Mazdarese said:

Pull the metal sliding guard off, and collect all the springs. They're ace for removing splinters and sticking into the gaps between your teeth.

Can you do both at the same time???

[Marf]

You just found 150 coasters.

[Mazdarese]

T40ORA said:

Mazdarese said:

Pull the metal sliding guard off, and collect all the springs. They're ace for removing splinters and sticking into the gaps between your teeth.

Can you do both at the same time???

With one spring? I can sure as hell give it a go!

[T40ORA]

Mazdarese said:

T40ORA said:

Mazdarese said:

Pull the metal sliding guard off, and collect all the springs. They're ace for removing splinters and sticking into the gaps between your teeth.

Can you do both at the same time???

With one spring? I can sure as hell give it a go!

Right; there's an excuse for a bit ofcontrolled destruction and springs popping all over the place

[Mazdarese]

T40ORA said:

Mazdarese said:

T40ORA said:

Mazdarese said:

Pull the metal sliding guard off, and collect all the springs. They're ace for removing splinters and sticking into the gaps between your teeth.

Can you do both at the same time???

With one spring? I can sure as hell give it a go!

Right; there's an excuse for a bit ofcontrolled destruction and springs popping all over the place

Be sure to keep the write protect tab.

[T40ORA]

SO what can we use that for?

[crmcatee]

T40ORA said:

SO what can we use that for?

You can use it to plug the gap in your teeth after you've been in there with a spring.

[Mazdarese]

crmcatee said:

T40ORA said:

SO what can we use that for?

You can use it to plug the gap in your teeth after you've been in there with a spring.

Or glue it onto a DVD to make sure it never gets over-written.

[T40ORA]

Mazdarese said:

crmcatee said:

T40ORA said:

SO what can we use that for?

You can use it to plug the gap in your teeth after you've been in there with a spring.

Or glue it onto a DVD to make sure it never gets over-written.