3.5" floppy disks still available

I want one, or a box of them, to place on my bookshelf of remembrance. I cherish my bookshelf as far as earthly things go. One of the coolest things I have displayed is an eight track for the Eagles Hotel California, a dear friend from grade school gave me. We still get together a couple times a year.

Thanks Nathan! I bought a box - collector items don't you know. (If anyone needs one just let me know.)

I brought some old equipment to to EPC to be recycled today. The young man's eyes, behind the counter, lit up when he saw the white Xbox 360. His eyes sparkled even more when I gave him the game cartridges.
 

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I might order a pack of them @Nathan Thanks for link , I recently asked a computer shop about floppy discs and he said as far as he was aware no, they had been discontinued

The reason I use them is I have a Husqvarna embroidery / sewing machine , and altho I don’t use it for embroidering much anymore it will be handy to have a pack just incase ( I store all my designs on a old laptop that still runs on XP ) if I want to sew a design I have to put the chosen design on a floppy ..then insert it in my machine
bought the machine in Feb 2000 so its coming up 26 years old ….
 
 
And even older - this 3 1/2 inch rigid diskette at 1.44 MB started out with only 720 KB. Before that was 5 1/4 “ floppy (truly flexible) diskettes. And who will admit being old enough to have used 8” floppies? Imagine what we would have thought back then to see modern day memory devices and tech? We live in interesting times….
 
I might still have one or two brand new IDE 1.44 drives in one of my tubs.

A 128 MB hard drive is my keepsake item.
 
There are plenty of external USB 3.5" floppy drives being marketed for less than $20 as many of us have early era product and app disks that can still be useful. For instance, those old disks with myriad small royalty free MSPaint art objects, icons, graphics. For my desktop, already have a $20 external USB CDrom drive for the same old media purpose.
 
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And even older - this 3 1/2 inch rigid diskette at 1.44 MB started out with only 720 KB. Before that was 5 1/4 “ floppy (truly flexible) diskettes. And who will admit being old enough to have used 8” floppies? Imagine what we would have thought back then to see modern day memory devices and tech? We live in interesting times….
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Here's my souvenir from the old days with a test program I wrote.

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Gark said:
And even older - this 3 1/2 inch rigid diskette at 1.44 MB started out with only 720 KB. Before that was 5 1/4 “ floppy (truly flexible) diskettes. And who will admit being old enough to have used 8” floppies? Imagine what we would have thought back then to see modern day memory devices and tech? We live in interesting times….
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I didn't personally use the 8" floppies but I remember them from an imaging machine that used them. I always marveled at how each new version of a drive would get smaller and hold more data. The original 8" floppies held 81kb of data.
 
When I first joined the Fleet as a newbie sailor, the Navy was still using EAM (electric accounting machine) technology both ashore and on big warships. We went through boxes of hollerith cards weekly. As an aside, we also made and gave away Christmas wreaths made out of used punch cards at this time of year.

Programmers and department staff submitted their work in the form of stacks of punch cards which on occasion ended up scrambled across the floor, if a clumsy operator or errant sorting machine took the notion to get careless or malfunction.
 

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