relic
I didn’t know that they are still in active use, until a week or so ago when we found it out the hard way (i.e. that some people still use them and we had to extract and insert back documents using the damn thing).
And here we have a photo showing you a pre-historic invention, the floppy diskettes
My 3-year old laptop doesn’t even have a FDD.
Am I a snob to have LOL-ed?
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I think we have a lot in putrajaya too!
FD is so hot when a 64MB thumbdrive costs RM200 back then.
The fact that income tax gives FD for those who apply for e-filling in 2007 (or prior)
I’ve got 1, but, didn’t have the medium to open it anymore.
3.5″ floppy and you call it relics!!? Cheh… you ain’t see antics. Even seeing the 5″1/4 inch are nothing. Tell me if you can show me an 8″ floppy! Next will be “hard sector” floppy.
FYI, the Windows 2003 and Windows XP, thanks to Microsoft, need floppy to create “emergency recovery disks”!
i have an external fdd at work for my lappy cuz people still use them, though rarely. ive encountered 1 or 2 in the past … eh … 2 yrs or so. lol.
oh my… they can’t even fit ONE mp3! how did we ever share anything?
btw, I still have the bright coloured Imation ones! so pretty!!! why can’t CDs or DVDs be so pretty??
My office… those so called Manager level they still prefer on using this to save or copy documents… they not really know on Thumb drive… cool leh
hehehe…
lol I can remember back to the 11 inch floppies, the 2 and a half inch tapes on tape drives as big as refridgerators. The first Hard Drive I saw which was as big as a washing machine and you could actually SEE each metal disk. The old Hollerith machines used to make punch cards … people with shoe boxes full of punch cards!
Lets face it, if you can’t toggle machine code into the front of a machine, you’re too young to remember when computer programmers were real computer programmers!
Goodness gracious, I still use em…on my DX4/100 (Yes, in 2008!). I know, I know..but I only use my PC for easy, light number crunching la. But the precious thing about using floppy disks, when you go to the IT store and you ask to buy one, they’ll give you this one million ringgit stare. Heck, sometimes I just go to the store and with no intention of buying, still just ask them…just to get my (stare) fix. You guys should try. Its very therapeutic…
I remember a time when floppy disks actually WERE floppy. haha.
OMG. I think EPF already stop accepting EPF submission in floppy disk format. Not sure though. Now even the 32MB SD card that comes with the Digital camera can store more data.
heiya. this is still ok la. imagine u still see those “floopy disk” as big as NGO LOY YA dry meat size?
eh..actually my dad is still using it coz he dun wanna waste money to upgrade the Pentium-1 in his office..
OMG! Now it reminds me that i have few boxes in keeping.. need to see what’s in there..
I have a box of unused floppies. Maybe I should donate to your government?
I recently took a piece of floppy diskette as collectibles during our shifting exercise to the new building. Guess what? I haven’t seen or used it before. It is about 10cmx10cm, thin, flat and double sided some more. At that time it must have been “cool”!
Yeah, our office has an external USB 3.5 inch diskette drive too. I remember using these a lot back in 1994 – games would come in 3-5 1.44 MB disks. Nowadays, the USB diskette drive is just there for the branch offices who’re using legacy computers.
Nostalgic for me though, coz I’m old skool.
wow. i have not seen these in a long time. =)
i’m adding the link to your blog in my readables. hope you don’t mind. =)
Yeah la, ur a cute snob
why u laughed at floppy diskettes one, don’t like you anymore
=(
my 3 year old laptop have FDD, but on that time, only my laptop have, all my friend laptop don have…
KY: haha i know
how did you think we managed to stumble upon them 
LMF: but the price decreased so fast! i don’t have a FDD also
moo_t: hahahah but this relic is still in use!
pinky: it’s just for show and for unexpected things, such as when the other dept is stuck in the 90s
plastyk: we didn’t! back then , 64MB thumb drive was THE thing to have. Don’t remember if we had 32MB
sotong: WHAT!!!!
dabs: you are as old as the floppys?
obi wan: yah? i bought the stack above at a stationery shop. they have loads of them
eyeris: old, old
simon: back when we didn’t have a choice
aeroplane: old, old
yatz: pentium 1 wtf
tom: you have a FDD to access the files??
mad: i’m sure they would appreciate it!
JC: collectibles?!?
huai bin: well hey! you are back
steph: sure go ahead
firdyisemo: don’t friend me ar? come lah i sayang you.
icalvyn: what brand? maybe an older batch kot?
Yes, I’m older than floppies. I remember the original Trash 80 using tape drives,and then suddenly the Apple II hit the market and they used floppies.
Geees, I’m older than personal computers, and even pocket CALCULATORS!!! My father bought a slide rule in Penang for when my elder brother eventually was going to go to University as calculators weren’t invented. lol
I even learned how to use the slide rule at one stage to work out logarithms and square roots and stuff … also before calculators!!! lol