DmMacniel comments on Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 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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[–] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

...and they only protect the data on the disk from being changed, you can still copy it. Otherwise the disk would be unreadable.

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[+] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 2 points 2 years ago

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