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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Eh…I wouldn’t call them “nice”. They were ok. Wouldn’t put them on a nice table.

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• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Before that, they gave out floppy disks. You could tape over the write protect hole and reuse them.

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But they were 720k. Barely usable

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    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You could punch a hole in the corner and double the capacity 😁

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You couldn’t flip a 3.5in floppy

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They were free and not everything needs 1.44MB.

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