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A comment on The Floppy Disk (2011).

Re:The Floppy Disk (2011) by ttul on Saturday August 19, 2023 @12:01PM (#37190095)
Anecdote: My friend in high school found that he could drill a hole in a 720KB floppy and transform it into a 1.44MB floppy, saving a few bucks. In 1993, this was practically magic.
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Re:The Floppy Disk (2011) by sublinear on Saturday August 19, 2023 @01:49PM (#37191272)
Demagnetizing a 1.44MB disk before formatting it and taping over that same hole was the inverse magic trick by the end of the 90s when it got harder to find the 720KB floppies.
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