I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)
I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)
I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.
Store your important data on them.
Write your own copy of Windows 10, minus the bloat. You'll probably have 2 floppies left
With those in hand, start waving them around maniacally and shout "WHY IS IT CALLED A FLOPPY IF IT'S SO DAMN HARD!?"
find the most complex AI model file you can put on it
You build your own floppotron of course
THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM!!!
Get ten USB floppy drives and set up a raid:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080117032102/http://phoenix.cc.edu:80/MegaFloppy.htm
Put them in a mdadm raid array
Contact TDK about extending that limited lifetime warranty.
Several years ago, I found a 3.5" floppy in an old desk, so I wrote "(My company's product) Production backup - DO NOT LOSE" on the label, and then left it on the floor in a main hallway of our office.
In my mind, it hopefully made a few people chuckle, but my real dream was that someone picked it up and tried to return it to the development team.
Sell them to someone who will test and resell them to the airline or medical industry... Manufacturing is a likely customer as well, plenty of legacy equipment there that's airgapped and still running decades-old hw/sw.
Youtube warning, some Boeing 747s
(This is a wrong answer since you only have a single pack. If you had several cases, you might actually be able to make a buck)
Put them in a raidz2 situation
Anus... Right into the anus...
Put all your precious documents on the disks and then rub a magnet on each one of them to make sure they are properly energized. The stronger the magnet the better.
Label one “Important Documents” and then attach it to your refrigerator door using a fridge magnet
You’ll want to download and install the most up-to-date drivers. I believe this model benefits from a slight overclock too, so maybe look at purchasing a decent aftermarket cooler
Lan party coasters
Abort, Retry, or Fail. But all at the same time.
- Register you product for warranty on the company website.
Start a porn collection of high quality pictures. Be sure to zip span them across all disks… all 1 photo
It says they're high density, so use them as ammo for your rail gun
Thank Lord they come already formatted.
Gift them as cup coasters.
Finally update device drivers in Windows the right way!
Butt stuff.
Add Nutella, enjoy?
When Windows 95 was still sold on floppy, it came on 25 fucking floppies in the box.
So I say put Windows 38 on them.
Stick them on a wall like an artpiece
Live action reboot of ReBoot
manually etch the bits yourself. Just use a hammer and chisel
Cyberpunk chainmail breastplate
Eat it
You could use them as a memory card for ps1 games.
World's best swap drive.
Use them
open it in a non-destructive manner, switch every read/write lock slider, put it back together.
Press them to make a real world save point.
Get them hard!
Inserting your floppy is a time honored tradition. Have a few too many beers, and give it a go. You have 10 chances to succeed, it seems.
Throw them at junior sysadmins like shuriken.
Go play a very public and dramatic round of disc golf
Use them to do the longest en passant in the history of chess
Use them to make a bootleg copy of Duke Nukem to share with your friends. That's what we used to do with them lol
crunchy but old snack
Make little finger sandwiches out of them and have a tea party.
Fuck being incorrect. Buy an old AKAI sampler and make music from floppy disks libraries, I still do with my S-1100. Wrong answer would be to ritually burn them...don't.
Boof them. Don't think about it, just boof em.
Be wild! Copy that floppy!
Sell them. There is a market for that.
Write “If found, please return to Minot AFB, ND c/o Duane” on them & scatter them in various airport restrooms across the US.
Epoxy them into coasters and sell them as save icon coasters.
Print your business cards on them.
Copy them
Zork zork zork zork zork zork
Tape the other hole and format them in DD (0,72MB) format.
https://www.tdkrfsolutions.tdk.com/support/warrant-terms
Probably not the same terms as when they made the disks, but it's their terms on limited warranty now.
Also, hand the disks to anyone asking you for your email for marketing purposes. Tell them all your information is on the disk.
Fill a silicone cube with deepset epoxy, toss that bad boy in. Fill a 2" thick and 6' tall PVC pipe with epoxy. Let it all dry then affix the epoxy rod to that cube and make a wizard's staff
Oh, man. This brings me back to my Amiga 500 days. So slow to load, but I loved that thing. Wish I hadn't sold it.
Your should install Lady Sia, a game published by TDK on it
Toast them and have them with PB&J, obviously
Throw them away and find a shugart compatible disk
Shuffle them like playing cards
could make a nice, nutritious breakfast
Flopp flopp flopp flooooooooopp
Throw them around your office like frisbees.
Attach one to a light pole with a paper that says "Government access codes"
Zip tie them into a 2x1 rectangular box with a flip top lid. A drill may be needed.
