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don't copy that floppy!

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[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Back in the day when the only copyright protection was scare tactics. Anyway looks like an ad for a software product, not actually anti-piracy propaganda. Nostalgic none the less. There was a time when all software was obtained through floppies. I sure was glad to see those go, damn things failed more often than they worked. I kept a big box of blank ones and copied everything off three times in case the first two failed.

[–] BustedPancake@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I still use floppies. They may be gone, but people still use them.

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

And I thought I was a holdout, didn't remove the floppy drives from my home built desktop computers until like 2005.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

For what, if I may ask?

I have a floppy case that I keep my old PS 1+2 and GC memory cards in, but that’s about as much use as I’ve got for the whole thing at this point, so I’m super curious.