don’t copy that floppy!

  • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Back in the day when the only copyright protection was scare tactics. Anyway looks like an ad for a software product, not actually anti-piracy propaganda. Nostalgic none the less. There was a time when all software was obtained through floppies. I sure was glad to see those go, damn things failed more often than they worked. I kept a big box of blank ones and copied everything off three times in case the first two failed.

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        1 year ago

        And I thought I was a holdout, didn’t remove the floppy drives from my home built desktop computers until like 2005.

        • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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          1 year ago

          Government still uses them in sensitive situations “for security” (and not having to beg for funding only to risk the upgrade failing and taking down some secret, billion-dollar operation) too.