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Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« on: December 04, 2012, 05:22:55 pm »
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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2012, 05:26:08 pm »
I love it as well!


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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2012, 06:32:10 pm »
I don't know, doesn't it get all screwed up if you get a magnet close to it?

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2012, 06:59:55 pm »


Not much storage capacity either.   >:D


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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2012, 07:00:50 pm »
Not much storage capacity either.   >:D

Only 1.44mb
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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2012, 07:18:13 pm »
Not much storage capacity either.   >:D

Only 1.44mb

It's only 720K if you get the DSDD model, but you can drill a hole in the upper left to convert it to the 1.44MB DSHD model.


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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2012, 07:29:29 pm »
You guys are confused, I don't think that's 3.5 inches, unless that's one of the borrowers.

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2012, 08:58:00 pm »


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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2012, 07:25:44 am »

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2012, 10:32:17 am »
I really didn't think anyone was gonna get that one.  ;)

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2012, 02:39:34 pm »
I really didn't think anyone was gonna get that one.  ;)

Now I don't feel so bad that I missed it as bad as rCadeGaming missed the DOS era magnetic media humor.   >:D


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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2012, 05:32:57 pm »
Huh?  What'd I miss?   :angry:

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2012, 06:00:18 pm »
Huh?  What'd I miss?   :angry:

Maybe I missed what you were saying in this post -- and I may well have -- since sometimes I can't brain, cuz I haz teh dumb.   :dunno

You guys are confused, I don't think that's 3.5 inches, unless that's one of the borrowers.

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It's only 720K if you get the DSDD model, but you can drill a hole in the upper left to convert it to the 1.44MB DSHD model.

The floppy below left is a standard 1.44MB, the one on the right is a 720KB drilled out which allows reformatting as a 1.44MB.


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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2012, 06:03:59 pm »
I think rCadeGaming was making a comment about the size of the floppy relative to the arm thats opening the drawer. 

Too many jokes flying over everyone's heads.   ;D

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2012, 06:10:48 pm »
Maybe I missed what you were saying in this post -- and I may well have -- since sometimes I can't brain, cuz I haz teh dumb.   :dunno

We may have the same condition



The floppy below left is a standard 1.44MB, the one on the right is a 720KB drilled out which allows reformatting as a 1.44MB.

Those both look, like 3.5" disks though; was just saying the table looks a lot bigger.  It probably has a laser disc in it.

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #15 on: December 05, 2012, 06:11:25 pm »
Damnit Hoopz, stop defending me while I'm trying to type!

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #16 on: December 05, 2012, 09:25:45 pm »
What it really needs is a lined yellowing label that reads Commander Keen

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #17 on: December 05, 2012, 11:52:57 pm »
I think rCadeGaming was making a comment about the size of the floppy relative to the arm thats opening the drawer. 

Too many jokes flying over everyone's heads.   ;D
D'oh! Googled The Borrowers, and with that, teh dumb melts away into clarity.   :lol   (proper noun, not generic adjective)

Don't remember ever seeing the movie or even previews.

What it really needs is a lined yellowing label that reads Commander Keen
You mean like this drilled and reformatted DS,DD ==> DS, HD?   ;D


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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2012, 08:47:26 am »
Don't remember ever seeing the movie or even previews.

I haven't seen it either.  It was a book though, and Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli; Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, etc.) just made a new film based on it.

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #19 on: December 06, 2012, 10:38:16 am »

I would make it an AOL floppy.  We all had a drawer full of those.

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2012, 02:20:12 pm »

I would make it an AOL floppy.  We all had a drawer full of those.

I dont think i could fit this table in a drawer.

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2012, 02:20:59 pm »
I dont think i could fit this table in a drawer.


Put a drawer under the table and blow everyone's mind.

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2012, 03:50:28 pm »
Proposed edit.


I would make it from AOL floppies.  We all had a drawer full of those.

Is this too meta?


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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2012, 03:51:36 pm »

Not too meta but we HAD a drawer full.  It would be hard to locate that many of them now.

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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #24 on: December 07, 2012, 04:45:44 pm »
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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #25 on: December 12, 2012, 11:41:57 am »

I would make it an AOL floppy.  We all had a drawer full of those.

AOL was my favorite band of the 90's, I had all of their CDs
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Re: Floppy disk table? Yes Please
« Reply #26 on: December 12, 2012, 01:43:14 pm »
AOL was my favorite band of the 90's, I had all of their CDs

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