Another fun thought. What is the icon that you click when you need to save something in Word or most other programs? Most of today's youth has no idea what that icon represents, they just know that it is the "save" icon.
Yep, still obvious. lol. Then again, it may be the fact that when I was young I made a habit of pulling the tape out and winding it back up with a pencil myself. This was around the age I was also constantly sat down at the table with pencils/crayons/ect and it was discovered I'm not to bad at drawing either. lol. Then again, it might just be the fact when I see the pegs in the cassette and the hex shape of the pencil it just clicks, I dunno. >.> Also, as a side note. I wouldn't put that floppy save icon only on the young, I've come across some old people who don't know too. (Mostly the ones who are late in catching up with the digital times.)
Well, if you've used audio cassettes, then it's an entirely different story. However I wouldn't call it "obvious" if that is the case.
Is that a pic of an audio tape and the rewinding device ? lol Omg so many times did one of those shoot out of my car's player, ... auto reverse my ass Gru
3.5 inch floppy was the standard read/write media all the way until USB keys turned up, but for the last few years they were nonetheless useless. Re-writable CDs and DVDs were more restrictive in when you could write things, and considering the size of them I figure they don't sell anymore. The only reasons discs are still used are that they're cheaper to make for selling audio, video and games and the copy protection systems are better established.
I had a great time at work not long ago with Floppy Disks. I was asked to install Lotus 1-2-3 onto a work computer so old company files could be opened. I was like "Sure, no problem". When I got to doing the install, I open the box to find what? Floppy disks. No CD to install with. I look at the back of the box: designed for Windows 3.1. lol! But, I did manage to get a Windows 3.1 program using nothing but floppy disks and my genius to install a fully functional and stable copy of Lotus 1-2-3 (an 8-bit program) onto a 64-bit Windows 7 enterprise computer *does a little dance* The only thing that really used Floppy disks past the 2002 or 2003 time was when a computer needed a bios update or to install RAID/AHCI drivers during a Windows XP install. Those still needed floppy disks to do for the most part. Eventually Windows tools were reliable enough to do a bios flash inside Windows and you could also create a bios update CD, but many still used floppy disks because it was what they were used to and was safest. Now days though, you just use a flash drive for that and do it directly from the bios. Unfortunately, you still need a floppy to install AHCI drivers during XP install though. I am very glad it is dying off completely now though.
CD-Rs and DVD-Rs still have usefulness for burning ISOs for installation media, for the time being. RWs maybe not so much, though I'm sure you can still get them. Floppies, on the other hand, I think are actually more expensive than a DVD-RW now. I don't know if you can even get 5 1/4" ones - I haven't seen one in many years now. P.S. OK, so from a search (purely for interest's sake!) it's quite possible that the 5.25" disks are out of production - it's still possible to get them in limited quantities but usually well over $1 each. Sometimes much more - there was a box of 10 selling for $50 on a classifieds site.
lol thats what I was thinking scotch tape was a must for either splicing one back together or covering up that notch on top of the cassette so you could record over that captain and tenille tape mom got you for your brithday
Just thought about the last time I bought a magazine(Nintendo Power) or called a 900 number for codes. Fucking Game Genie, Running Pad, Super Scope. Sonic you can't touch this, MvC2... you can have this, Tekkan Tag are you serious, bringing Eddy you're delirious. I'm getting old!
I remember floppy disks as the sole reason I became a gamer. The endless amounts of cheap copies of Amiga games my stepdad had "acquired" from friends and other sources. Oh man, original Worms, X-Com and the like. Those was the days. Tapes as well, making tapes of stuff from the CDs and radios to play in our shitty little car stereos. Today's generation know nothing about nothing. Poor bastards.
The fact that we managed to squeeze games that you could spend hours playing into 1.2 MB was amazing.