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How old are you ?

Sylvain Wallez

@swallez.com

28 Feb

Wait… No 5"¼ floppy disk?

yes, same, older

I just aged a lot. I don't thank all 3 of you.

28/2/26, 4:34 pm0 reposts2 likes

Sylvain Wallez

@swallez.com

28 Feb

Did you actually use 5"¼ floppies? I did, on my first computer, an Apple II! And I still have it and dozens of floppies with carefully curated software 😛

Hugues Lepesant

@lepesant.com

28 Feb

I have sold two 5.25 floppy drivers to the french army in 1999 😛. Yes i’m that old 😜

slecache

@slecache.com

28 Feb

I used 5"¼ floppy disks on my first computer, an Amstrad PC-1640 which has 2 floppy drives.

Philippe Charrière 💜

@k33gorg.bsky.social

28 Feb

Amstrad PC 1512 with only 1 floppy drive for me But I added a 30Mo file card

🚀

I threw away all the floppy disks a few years ago...

Sylvain Wallez

@swallez.com

28 Feb

BTW, did you know that floppy disks are a great visible light filter to keep only IR? I used that to mod a webcam to build a touch table some years ago. www.instructables.com/Multi-touch-... and nice pictures you can do with this hack www.instructables.com/Floppy-Disk-...

instructables.comMulti-touch TableMulti-touch Table: Ive looked around for a good in depth instructable on how to make a muti-touch table and I didnt find any I liked. I hope you enjoy making your very own multi-touch table and that m...