My desk at work, way in the back of one of the drawers. They have a whole 1.44MB of storage on them!
Thinking of re-use uses, I think I’ll be using them as coasters. Another suggestion was string them up and make tree garland or individual ornaments out of them. They’re multi-colored and kinda cute. Orange, yellow, green, pink, blue, purple, clear.
Definitely coasters. I have an empty coaster holder at home, they’ll be fun to display.
Do they say “10 Free Hours of AOL” on them.
Sounds like you just found yourself a new pen holder!
I have a box of 1.44 MB floppies in my desk drawer at work. You know what the label on the box says? “OS/2 Boot disk and utilities.” Yeah, they’ve been in there a while.
I live in the sticks. Teachers at my work still sometimes use them (they have to plug in the usb floppy drive into their laptops). I have no idea why they don’t just buy the smallest memory stick available for like 5 bucks, but there it is. What is the cheapest memory stick these days, anyway? 100 megs?
Do you have any tables with one leg shorter than the others?
I’ve still got Lost Treasures of Infocom on 5.25".
I was waiting for someone to say they still have 5.25" floppies! I remember those fondly.
I still have one 3.25" here, back from my Grade 11 computing class where we first used Macs (1989 - it was a step up from our Grade 10 class on PET computers!). After the class, I formatted it and used it in our family PC for many a year.
Can’t read it now and of course they’re too small to store anything on any more, but I like having it around.
My dad on the other hand still has some cassette tapes that he recorded programs on for our TRS-80! Beat that!
I saw a typewriter the other day.
I have a bunch of 3.5 floppy disks and I found some old Zip disks and external drive. I wonder if I could find a driver for it. (I haven’t looked because I don’t really need one.)
My first computer program was on punched paper tape. However, sadly I did not keep it as a souvenir. (This was about 46 years ago.)
still have a 5.25" drive in a machine (not the one i’m using now).
i have some things like least squares regression on paper tape.
Way back when I was an aspiring writer I wrote a novel and typed it up on TRS-80 Color Computer, saving it on a cassette tape. I don’t have the cassette though.
I was a terrible writer, but I used that little CoCo to get started in programming and am doing that for a living 25+ years later.
Hey, I still use floppies! I have a synthesizer that I bought 11 years ago. If floppies go extinct, I can’t write any more songs.
Heh. That’s the only place I have use for floppies as well. I’ve got an old synth from the mid 80s that uses floppies to store its samples. There’s a guy who’s doing an upgrade on the synth for around $400 to change it to a USB drive and some other upgrades, which extends the life of the thing dramatically. I think I may just end up selling it before my floppies go bad.
Oh, and I also have a desktop I built in like 2003 that needs a floppy to install the drivers for the SATA drives, before the computer will see the hard drive so you can install the OS. I haven’t done a format on that computer in like five years, though.
We still OWN a typewriter. It’s rather hard to get ribbons for it. The reason we have it is because my husband’s job requires him to fill out dead tree forms now and then, and you just can’t do that on a printer. I don’t know WHY nobody has realized that it would be faster and easier to just have people fill out an electronic form.
My dad used to bring those tapes home from work, and yeah, it would have been about 46 years ago. I used to play with them.
I wonder if my old TI994/A computer still works? I wonder if I still have some cartridges for it? It had a pretty good Reversi program on it. And I do still have some 3.5 and even 5.25 floppies around, too.
I still have my master’s thesis on 3.5" floppies. 
