Comment on With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month agoBefore that, they gave out floppy disks. You could tape over the write protect hole and reuse them.
Comment on With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month agoBefore that, they gave out floppy disks. You could tape over the write protect hole and reuse them.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But they were 720k. Barely usable
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
You could punch a hole in the corner and double the capacity 😁
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You couldn’t flip a 3.5in floppy
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
You didn’t need to flip it, 3.5" readers could already read both sides, but the hole or lack of is what told them whether both sides were available. I’ve done it myself.
webcommand.net/…/does-anyone-remember-the-floppy-…
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
They were free and not everything needs 1.44MB.