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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by cogman10 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:37AM (#32824836)
The 5 1/4 disks, IMO, had a superior kinesthetic. A much more solid thunk sound when being inserted and a deeper tone while being read.

Enjoy, the sounds of floppies :D [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnFQZa8SKP8

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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by Koshkin on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @11:26AM (#32825545)
The ones that I remember had a locking lever which barely made any sound at all.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/8D9f1.jpg

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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by Doxin on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:57AM (#32849914)
Some of em were spring loaded to where if it got past halfway it'd snap shut all the way. Flicking one of those makes a good noise.
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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by raintrees on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:34PM (#32827559)
Ah, but 8" floppies made better frisbees - personal experience :)

I used to work in the disk duplication industry, both at a copier (DisCopyLabs) and then later at the robot manufacturer, Mountain Computer, which was eventually bought by Nakamichi and combined with Trace, our competitor.

We used to be able to sail those suckers over the building on Wyatt Drive to the San Thomas Expressway... Next person to work on roof equipment probably had a curious experience, many discs that did not make it all the way likely scattered all over the roof.

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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by p1mrx on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:46PM (#32826777)
The seeking at 1:48[1] sounds like Hall and Oates[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnFQZa8SKP8&t=108s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY27wmTZwyg

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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by linker3000 on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:47PM (#32826781)
The 8 inchers were a nightmre in some mechanisms (whichever ones Intel used in their MDS systems); slide 'em in too quickly and with a bit of passion (!?) and they'd catch on something, so if you weren't paying attention you'd fold them over and make a crease. Bye bye data!
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