Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 days ago
And a satisfying but not too jarring “thunk” when they seat in correctly.
Remember how sometimes you’d put the disk in and you could hear the floppy part spinning for a fraction of a second to line up with, I guess the motor head, before it fully clunked in? That shit was peak.
Brrr-click!
Yep lol.
And you could tell by the sound if your read/write operation was going to fail for whatever reason.
(A)bort, ®etry, (F)ail?
R-R-R-R-R-(sigh)-A
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Remember how sometimes you’d put the disk in and you could hear the floppy part spinning for a fraction of a second to line up with, I guess the motor head, before it fully clunked in? That shit was peak.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 days ago
Brrr-click!
Yep lol.
And you could tell by the sound if your read/write operation was going to fail for whatever reason.
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 4 days ago
(A)bort, ®etry, (F)ail?
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 days ago
R-R-R-R-R-(sigh)-A