Ancient tech

[scottdp]

I needed to use a 3.5" floppy disk today at work.

Comments

[sidbyrd]

You probably also had to use mud as a communications medium, which kind of makes floppy disks look advanced.

[scottdp]

Nah, mud is actually a lot more difficult, and is predated by floppy disks. Don't mistake 'slow' for 'primitive'.

[sidbyrd]

I don't know, the Sumerians communicated with mud. I think floppy disks are strictly 20th century.

[scottdp]

Yes, but that was static mud. We use flowing, dynamic mud. Absolutely, totally different.

[cosmic_crystal]

Even more ancient would have been the 5.25" floppies.

[leslan80]

I'm impressed that you had a computer that actually READ the floppy disc!

In my two short months at the museum, I have discovered numerous floppy discs on which staff "backed up" their information. Even if I wanted to, I cannot look on them because my computer doesn't have the necessary drive!

[scottdp]

My PC doesn't have a floppy drive. The PC in our group's lab is older, and has one. Problems will occur if that ever gets upgraded.

If necessary, I imagine you can find a floppy drive that plugs in via USB.