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Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once (files.mastodon.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's not the disks it's what's ON the disks

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And they always act as if there's no way it could have been copied and exist somewhere else.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But my dude... Diskettes had Copy Protection! /s

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah! The little plastic slider you moved up and down.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    On commerical disks those are fixed on the frame (but can be flexed/cut away of course)

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well, often it was a game of super spy keepaway and no one ever made it to a computer or had the code or the data was to save a good guy or whatever

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    To THE computer, wherever that was. When i learned Basic in 1986/87, the only computers i had access to, were those we used in class.

    Yeah, after class, homework consisted of writing code on paper. Copilot = Basic Book

    Like, for what purpose you'd have a computer at home?

    Iirc Basic was the first, non-scientist friendly programming language. I saw an ad in the newspapers and signed up. We were 6 students in total and the first people ( not working in any scientific field ) in our small town, which knew how to use a computer and write the code for the beloved starfield screen saver in Basic.

    Edit: having watched war games 3 years prior, when i was 13, i really felt like a spy doing secret stuff.

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