I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)
I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)
I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.
- Pick some friends that you like
- Download "I Am Never Going To Give You Up" by Rick Roll
- Put the song on the disk in very low quality .mp3
- Give the disks away as "fun, retro" drink coasters
- Watch as they use the coasters, unaware that you Rick Rollered them
Label in sharpie as "Bitcoin password" and superglue to the sidewalk in a busy area. Watch people try to pick up.
Dude. RAID.
Click on them to save your files.
Download a car
Label one “Important Documents” and then attach it to your refrigerator door using a fridge magnet
Sell them as 3D printed save icons.
Carry one in your pocket so you can whip it out in a threatening gesture... like in the film hackers
Get a few suitcases at Goodwill or something, stick a floppy and some 'redacted' papers in a red envelope, leave them in random places around town and observe what happens. Make sure to wear a trench coat and sunglasses when you 'forget' them at each drop point.
Thank them for the retro-themed coaster set
Contact TDK about extending that limited lifetime warranty.
Whatever you do, as soon as you crack it open get your nose right up there and inhale deeply.
Combine them into a blazing fast 14.4 MB RAID 0.
Floppy disks are a way to install linux on your microwave try a distro like arch linux it's microwave safe
Load virus on to banking system to embezzle fraction of cents on each financial operation.
Put all your precious documents on the disks and then rub a magnet on each one of them to make sure they are properly energized. The stronger the magnet the better.
Hand them to zoomers as 3d printed save buttons
Start a porn collection of high quality pictures. Be sure to zip span them across all disks… all 1 photo
Write your own copy of Windows 10, minus the bloat. You'll probably have 2 floppies left
With those in hand, start waving them around maniacally and shout "WHY IS IT CALLED A FLOPPY IF IT'S SO DAMN HARD!?"
Put a 240p rick and roll video inside and write cryptic labels on them. Spread them around the city and rest knowing that someone is going to go through hoops only to get Rick rolled.
Split up something like Puppy or Damn Small Linux across them all.
Build a PC with 15-20 floppy drives and insert and mount them all.
Boot Linux off of all the floppies.
Pirate Windows 95
Several years ago, I found a 3.5" floppy in an old desk, so I wrote "(My company's product) Production backup - DO NOT LOSE" on the label, and then left it on the floor in a main hallway of our office.
In my mind, it hopefully made a few people chuckle, but my real dream was that someone picked it up and tried to return it to the development team.
- Register you product for warranty on the company website.
World's best swap drive.
Coasters for a DnD night!
When Windows 95 was still sold on floppy, it came on 25 fucking floppies in the box.
So I say put Windows 38 on them.
open it in a non-destructive manner, switch every read/write lock slider, put it back together.
Sell them to someone who will test and resell them to the airline or medical industry... Manufacturing is a likely customer as well, plenty of legacy equipment there that's airgapped and still running decades-old hw/sw.
Youtube warning, some Boeing 747s
(This is a wrong answer since you only have a single pack. If you had several cases, you might actually be able to make a buck)
Cyberpunk chainmail breastplate
You could use them as a memory card for ps1 games.
THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM!!!
Buy a USB floppy drive for each one and then create a RAID 0 disk array. It'll be super quick and gloriously noisy.
Insert them into your urethra!
Unwrap them and open it and then put them all back so they look used. Write on the box in sharpie "Backups 1/127". Delete the critical production system at your work. When someone asks where the backups are, hand them these.
see how many of them it takes to hold a single 4K image
Gift them as cup coasters.
Inserting your floppy is a time honored tradition. Have a few too many beers, and give it a go. You have 10 chances to succeed, it seems.
Anus... Right into the anus...
Go play a very public and dramatic round of disc golf
Mount nine of them on a square board so that they're all focused on a single point for a mild solar furnace.
Use the last one to look at yourself, the proud owner of a mild solar furnace.
don't run Doom with them
Throw them at junior sysadmins like shuriken.
manually etch the bits yourself. Just use a hammer and chisel
Use them to make a bootleg copy of Duke Nukem to share with your friends. That's what we used to do with them lol
Butt stuff.
Run Doom on them?
Find a way to convert them into triangle shaped disks
It says they're high density, so use them as ammo for your rail gun
Fuck being incorrect. Buy an old AKAI sampler and make music from floppy disks libraries, I still do with my S-1100. Wrong answer would be to ritually burn them...don't.
Sue the maker for false advertising. 1.44MB is clearly not High Density.
crunchy but old snack
Finally update device drivers in Windows the right way!
TDK's revenue has been increasing steadily at least starting from 2010. When was the last time you bought a TDK product?
Sell them. There is a market for that.
Glue two on top of your flip flops. You now unlocked the floppy flip flops
Thank Lord they come already formatted.
Be wild! Copy that floppy!
find the most complex AI model file you can put on it
Write “If found, please return to Minot AFB, ND c/o Duane” on them & scatter them in various airport restrooms across the US.
Epoxy them into coasters and sell them as save icon coasters.
Make yourself some Enterprises.
Print your business cards on them.
Add Nutella, enjoy?
You build your own floppotron of course
Put them in a raidz2 situation
Tape the other hole and format them in DD (0,72MB) format.
Put them in a mdadm raid array
Copy them
Abort, Retry, or Fail. But all at the same time.
Use them
Disc golf
You’ll want to download and install the most up-to-date drivers. I believe this model benefits from a slight overclock too, so maybe look at purchasing a decent aftermarket cooler
Toast them and have them with PB&J, obviously
Use them to do the longest en passant in the history of chess
I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.
It probably means you can complain any time about a manufacturing defect, but not anything else.
Anyway, the terms should be printed somewhere on the box or in a paper inside.
link them together through the data and read-only slots to make a countdown chain.
Zork zork zork zork zork zork
Throw them away and find a shugart compatible disk
Get them hard!
could make a nice, nutritious breakfast
Why would anyone bother making 1.4 MB diaks
Make little finger sandwiches out of them and have a tea party.
Stick them on a wall like an artpiece
Live action reboot of ReBoot
Oh, man. This brings me back to my Amiga 500 days. So slow to load, but I loved that thing. Wish I hadn't sold it.
Your should install Lady Sia, a game published by TDK on it
Flopp flopp flopp flooooooooopp
Copy them
Write MP3s to them and use them to play one song in a modern car.
(I saw a video of someone playing a clip of music using a USB floppy drive)
Throw them around your office like frisbees.
Kind of hard to give right answers to something that time has rendered utterly useless. I guess you could sell it as an antique
Store your important data on them.
Zip tie them into a 2x1 rectangular box with a flip top lid. A drill may be needed.
Eat it