New to me, but for you technical curmudgeons: FloppyDisk.com

[JoeH]

Zoidberg wrote:
And if you really want to lose some time researching old media, I'd head over to the Museum of Obsolete Data. Nerd that I am, I'll peruse that site for far too long.

Lots of rabbit hole material on that site, and even then lots left out.

[Grateful11]

I seem remember when the Bondi Blue iMac came out with no floppy, someone developed a website called something like iMacfloppy dot com. It gave you a small amount of storage.

[rz]

testcase wrote:
[quote=rz]
I still have a few old floppy drives with stuff on them, but I figure that I've gone about 20 years since I was able to read them. I figure if I've survived this long without knowing what's on them, I probably don't really need them anymore.

Are you sure that none of your crypto currency passwords are on those disks? ;-)
Hah! I wish. Crypto currency didn’t exist back in 1990s.

[Robert M]

Ka jowct,

Yikes. That just brought back memories of Syquest drives. I had standardized in the Syquest EZ135 system back in the day. Chose it over Zip drives, Iomega bernoulli box and magneto-optical (MO) systems. The Syquest system actually worked well for me during its time.

Robert

[NewtonMP2100]

….some prefer hard….. to floppy……

[ka jowct]

Robert M wrote:
Ka jowct,

Yikes. That just brought back memories of Syquest drives. I had standardized in the Syquest EZ135 system back in the day. Chose it over Zip drives, Iomega bernoulli box and magneto-optical (MO) systems. The Syquest system actually worked well for me during its time.

Robert

A lot of us were desperate for portable and affordable removable storage with decent capacity, and they all seemed to take forever to make it to market: Zip drives, the Orb, etc. I remember getting a 240Mb APS external drive at work and that was a big deal, and cost $500+. Now I'm sorting through 2.5" hard drives and asking myself what I can do with these little 750GB and 1TB drives.

[Ombligo]

We Zipped right past those drives and used Jazz Drives at work. Whenever one filled, we would send it to the main office and the contents were transferred to the main storage, the disk was wiped and sent back. welcome to 1990s Computering

[ka jowct]

I wanted a Jazz drive. But once CD-R drives came along, we went with that. I remember the hours spent transferring backups to higher-capacity media, first from 800K floppies onto 1.44 Mb floppies, then onto Zip disks, then onto CDs and DVDs. Good times.

[Zoidberg]

The Jaz was a serious contender for me, but I think at that point I had started using MO disks.

Plus there was the click click click click click click click

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaz_drive