Retro Floppy Won’t Fit in Tight Slots
Posted in: Retro, storage, Today's Chili
This floppy-shaped recordable CD is, at first glance, a splendidly retro device. Push it down onto the spindle of the drive and you can look forward to 200 whole Megabytes of storage.
Unfortunately, that’s where it ends. Try cramming this into a modern, slot loading drive and you’ll need to take the computer apart to get it back again. And that’s before we even get to the price.
A 50-pack of rewritable discs can be picked up for a few bucks these days, which makes the price of these novelties even more shocking. A single floppy will cost a hard $10, plus another $4 for shipping. Insane.
Much better, and a great idea for a future how-to project, would be to hack a USB stick together with a floppy. That way you could cram a fistful of Gigabytes into a mere 3.5 inches.
Product page [Design Boom via BBG]
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