I Have a Lot of Floppy Disks... (Collection Overview)

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Комментарии • 174

  • @eg1885
    @eg1885 4 года назад +45

    "Emergency Disk"
    When you need to save a file but all your other disks are unavailable.

  • @SupaPhly0
    @SupaPhly0 4 года назад +24

    I can't believe they made the save icon into a real thing

    • @moelester9902
      @moelester9902 4 года назад +2

      And different versions of it.

    • @ttaute
      @ttaute 4 года назад +1

      @@moelester9902 As storage media.

    • @armandobueno1681
      @armandobueno1681 4 года назад +3

      "tHe sAVe iCoN wAs bAsED oN tHE fLoPPy dIsC nOT thE oTheR wAY" someone was going to say but I think I already stopped him

    • @kennysbusdrawings
      @kennysbusdrawings 4 года назад +2

      I smell an r/woosh

  • @chupathingy5862
    @chupathingy5862 4 года назад +19

    Those AOL floppies... I remember going around early in the morning to all the houses on my block, stealing the AOL floppies out of their newspapers.

  • @noahbeaudin6478
    @noahbeaudin6478 4 года назад +69

    It's not every day where you hear someone say they have a lot of floppy disks in 2020.

    • @aaroncrafty1233
      @aaroncrafty1233 4 года назад +1

      Definitely true

    • @validcore
      @validcore 4 года назад

      I clicked on this vid because I have a lot of floppy disk.

    • @tieline1333
      @tieline1333 4 года назад +2

      @Dusk Raccoon I am 17 and I have 1.6k floppy disks in my collection. (3.5" 5.25" and 8")

    • @sillyaioli
      @sillyaioli 4 года назад

      Noah Beaudin remind me if this comment Gets Popular Thx

    • @ChloekabanOfficial
      @ChloekabanOfficial 3 года назад

      @@tieline1333 Show me.

  • @j.w.techchannel
    @j.w.techchannel 4 года назад +14

    9:01 Window is 95.

    • @boneske
      @boneske 4 года назад

      Window's 95 is possessive, I.E. I'm using Jeff's laptop. Window owns 95.

  • @thatoneuser5066
    @thatoneuser5066 4 года назад +8

    2040: I have a lot of CDs
    2060: I have a lot of USB Flash Drives
    2080: ?

  • @KowboyUSA
    @KowboyUSA 4 года назад +7

    Suddenly I feel energized to re-explore my collection of hundreds of floppies.

  • @Seraph.G
    @Seraph.G 4 года назад +5

    I have one of those reflective AOL floppy disks from (it's hard to tell in the video but I believe) the same year, 1998, and it says version 3.0!

  • @stinchjack
    @stinchjack 4 года назад +4

    25 years ago it was pretty hard to imagine life without floppy disks

  • @Mtik333
    @Mtik333 4 года назад +5

    Nice collection. Have you created backups of these floppy disks? Just in case something gets lost, especially when all these are very low on size comparing to nowadays "storage size". It would be kind of time consuming (especially difficult with 5 1/4), but probably worth it, don't you think?

  • @ptzzz
    @ptzzz 4 года назад +4

    loved that emphasis at 6:17

  • @Eyetrauma
    @Eyetrauma 4 года назад +5

    That ‘wear’ you’d seen on the 5 1/4” disks is pretty typical for adhesives that are this old, especially if they weren’t somewhere climate controlled. It’s funny to think that if they were made without the stickers and left to the user to apply they’d be in better shape.

  • @jakemeals
    @jakemeals 4 года назад +6

    "Don't copy that floppy!"

  • @qpol
    @qpol 4 года назад +3

    if you connect all of these at once, there would be enough space to open 1 tab in google chrome

  • @WedgeStratos
    @WedgeStratos 4 года назад +1

    Literally same but with CDs. I have at least 3 100-disc spindles of burns, driver discs, games and software. It's funny how much more personal a CD is to someone. Most floppies have such small sizes, it's only really feasible for the essentials.

  • @Henk717
    @Henk717 4 года назад +9

    I hope you imaged them all, just so you can re-write them after they go blank.

  • @darthbubba866
    @darthbubba866 4 года назад +1

    The first sign of creeping hoarderism; still has floppies. Like my unopened box of DSDD 5-1/4 inch floppies :-)

  • @Shadowflare6
    @Shadowflare6 4 года назад +2

    I really need more floppy disks but I have such a hard time finding them nowadays

    • @Shadowflare6
      @Shadowflare6 4 года назад +1

      @Svein Are Karlsen can't use an emulator on a sony mavica

  • @VectraQS
    @VectraQS 4 года назад +1

    I have about this many, but I've thrown out this many because they just generally suck. Pro Tip: If the disk is rainbow colored or transparent, it's new enough to be absolutely terrible. Stick to the black and beige disks. Bonus points if they have metal sliders.

  • @harshmishra9941
    @harshmishra9941 3 года назад +1

    While many people might think 25 floppy MS office install is just a showoff.
    It's not it's very real back in the day I did this in 2010 when grandpa was trying to backup some proprietary bank documents from 1995 prior to his retirement.
    That contained very specific encrypted content which otherwise could not be opened in consumer version of MS Office.

  • @Kali_Krause
    @Kali_Krause 4 года назад +2

    I have a floppy disk of Logitech drivers disk 2. I'm missing disk 1 though. It was for older keyboards and mice. I also have a full backup copy of Windows 98 SE. That came from the old Gateway tower my parents used to have but got rid of it :)

  • @ynfg6992
    @ynfg6992 4 года назад +11

    Customer: "i want me 3.11 windows"
    Employee: "we cannot sell you .11 windows
    Customer: "no windows 3.11"

  • @shaderu5825
    @shaderu5825 3 года назад +1

    Those office depot disks seem to be pretty reliable for me, I use a set of them for my mavica camera

  • @JessicaFEREM
    @JessicaFEREM 4 года назад +1

    You should really organize them, maybe add some sticky note tabs that tell what's where

  • @goosebyte
    @goosebyte 4 года назад +2

    got my old floppy collection beat 5 times over!!!

  • @marct.g.5468
    @marct.g.5468 4 года назад +1

    Wow Michel, you don’t even remember what you have in this massive collection!

  • @BilisNegra
    @BilisNegra 4 года назад +1

    14:30 Let's hope those nice mold stains on the box are not indicative of the disks' condition.

  • @Reziac
    @Reziac 4 года назад +1

    Knew someone who used GeOS to multitask on an XT, I shit you not. He'd be online with it while it printed invoices in the background and did other stuff too.
    I have a fairly appalling collection of old diskettes too... unfortunately didn't keep the CP/M and similar vintage disks, sacrificed when I moved.

  • @knightcrusader
    @knightcrusader 4 года назад +1

    I thought I was he only one... I recently started building sets of Windows and MS-DOS install diskettes and bought about 300. Dunno why I needed that many but why not. Now I have 8 floppy holders full sitting in my office holding all the bits.

    • @azzajohnson2123
      @azzajohnson2123 4 года назад

      As time goes on, they will become more and more collectible. A lot is being lost due to poor storage. Bit Rot and the medium disintegrating.

  • @rosemarymorgan336
    @rosemarymorgan336 4 года назад +1

    I do not miss installing things with floppies.

  • @kristiantodorov5080
    @kristiantodorov5080 4 года назад +18

    Michael: guys, i am running out on floppy disks
    Also Michael: i have ALOT of floppy disks!
    Great video, thought! I have a question, will you do a face reveal and if so, when will you do it?

  • @inny74
    @inny74 4 года назад +3

    I cannot vouch for having a childhood with floppy diskettes, I was born in 2001. I can tell everyone here though that these were pretty fragile and unreliable pieces of storage medium. Even the drives themselves tend to kick the bucket early.

    • @nequastar1826
      @nequastar1826 4 года назад +1

      And yet many many years later I have both a pc from the early 2000’s with a fully working drive, that has been used a hell of a lot, and a bunch of floppy disks I’ve had and used for years, very “fragile and unreliable”

  • @WXLM-MorganNicole619
    @WXLM-MorganNicole619 4 года назад

    That’s a lot of floppies no joke! I’ve never seen so many disks in one place

  • @XanthosAcanthus
    @XanthosAcanthus 4 года назад +1

    I used to use floppy disk as a pick up line. Unfortunately, they were always disappointed I was a 3.5 and not a 5.4. Dang

  • @airfixer9461
    @airfixer9461 4 года назад

    Aaaah...nostalgia......"Don't copy that floppy" ;-)

  • @Rolatnor
    @Rolatnor 4 года назад +7

    When I was 10 I used 5 1/4 inch floppies at the school I went to, as well as 3 1/2 inch floppies and I don't remember what os they ran but I enjoyed playing the games it had

    • @Rolatnor
      @Rolatnor 4 года назад +2

      I think it was dos 6.22 and windows 3.11 but I'm not sure about it

    • @Rolatnor
      @Rolatnor 4 года назад +2

      It's been way too long since then

    • @bearthechair2789
      @bearthechair2789 4 года назад +1

      We had an old apple that had a 5.25 in drive in my 4th grade class. Naturally I was the only one that tried to use it

    • @Rolatnor
      @Rolatnor 4 года назад +1

      My school was way behind with education but these floppies are hard to find nowadays

  • @WindowsOnWindows
    @WindowsOnWindows 4 года назад +3

    Nice slightly different style of video! I only have a few floppy discs (British spelling!) left at this point, which are also neon and the last ones I bought. Must have been in the early 2000s IIRC.

  • @markianclark9645
    @markianclark9645 4 года назад +1

    Beats my floppy disk collection...I've not got a quarter of that amount...but I do have the same game Doom 2 on 5 diskettes...and the original purchase receipt from Virgin megastore 12 Oct 1994 but no box...also have a drawer full of floppy drives (FDD)...some of them still read disks! My P3 Compaq has a branded drive with no faceplate to line up with the desktop front case...it's challenging to get other drives modified to fit in it...that doesn't stop me

  • @retrocomputinggrotto
    @retrocomputinggrotto 4 года назад +2

    Nice intro :) I forget all about Microsoft Scenes - I used to have them! The Doom II disks are very cool - do you have the box? I hope the Compaq disks you have been uploaded to archive.org? Love that you have SoftRAM, the software that did bugger all ;) I have a dream, that one day I will own an original set of Windows 95 floppy disks and install W95 from them :)

  • @amanmittal857
    @amanmittal857 4 года назад

    Floppy is a must if you want to be a retro enthusiast

  • @2719266
    @2719266 4 года назад

    Those Doom floppy disks. I remember using hacha to share some copies with my school friends.

  • @geotechmore8855
    @geotechmore8855 4 года назад +1

    The primary focus on my RUclips channel is on LINUX and yet I'm subscribed to this channel.. So you must be doing SOMETHING right! ☺️👍 Really cool detailed videos on different Microsoft Operating System versions.. And on Microsoft products.. 😀👍 Yeah great content!

  • @InconsistentManner
    @InconsistentManner 4 года назад +1

    JESUS GEO WORKS... damn I have not heard anything about that in probably 30 years. and I'm only 36 My elementary school computer lab had Apple2's, DOS machines, and GEO FUCKING WORKS... I humbly request a video about Geo Works for the nostalgia trip.

  • @crazyfloridian
    @crazyfloridian 4 года назад

    The 8-Bit Guy has a Compaq Portable. You could probably ask him that you can use it for those floppy disks.

  • @Peppermint-Palace
    @Peppermint-Palace 4 года назад

    Dang, that's a lot of floppy disks.

  • @howtobebasic2122
    @howtobebasic2122 4 года назад +1

    My main computer still has an old floppy drive in it, sadly it hasn't worked in years :(

  • @chrisrlillo
    @chrisrlillo 4 года назад

    the first 10 sec felt like watching howtobasic man lmao

  • @Juliodax
    @Juliodax 4 года назад

    I remember those smaller box for floppy disk!!!! Like this red one!!

  • @TEchWIse2203
    @TEchWIse2203 4 года назад +8

    Do a floppy disk 💾 giveaway cos I’d love to have one but I don’t have any

    • @codykamminga9667
      @codykamminga9667 4 года назад +1

      TEch WIse 2203 get one from a landfill, they are full of them

    • @TEchWIse2203
      @TEchWIse2203 4 года назад +1

      i cant because of quarintine

    • @theglitcher8553
      @theglitcher8553 3 года назад +1

      I have 50 floppies

  • @canuck21
    @canuck21 4 года назад

    I too still have a whole bunch of floppy disks on one of my shelves.

  • @Madness832
    @Madness832 4 года назад

    Oh wow, used to like Blake Stone. Unfortunately, my copy got lost awhile back.

  • @Twintania
    @Twintania 4 года назад +1

    Hey Michael, I just installed a Duke nukem theme on my windows 98 computer and can't figure out how to set it, do you have to have plus installed to use themes?

  • @BadBoyBobby85
    @BadBoyBobby85 4 года назад +2

    I'm the same way with DVDs , well over a thousand

  • @benplus1503
    @benplus1503 4 года назад +4

    It’s been around 2 minutes since this video was uploaded and there’s already a dislike. Why.

    • @GamingDreamer
      @GamingDreamer 4 года назад +1

      people who remembered what Floppy Disks did to them, I don't hate Floppy Disks but they can't keep shit on them for longer then a week

    • @Juliodax
      @Juliodax 4 года назад +1

      Haters?, unhappy people? Who knows!!

    • @kennysbusdrawings
      @kennysbusdrawings 4 года назад

      cuz he hasnt done a face reveal yet?

  • @Windows_98
    @Windows_98 3 года назад

    so. many. floppies.
    I want dem all.

  • @phalanxHH
    @phalanxHH 4 года назад

    Floppy disks are awsome.

  • @uninteressantedinge8194
    @uninteressantedinge8194 3 года назад +1

    I have 53 floppy disks and it's way to much for todays standards

  • @kennysbusdrawings
    @kennysbusdrawings 4 года назад +2

    Never heard you talk like that.
    I kind of enjoy this

  • @nenamoree9
    @nenamoree9 Год назад

    9:06 Ah yes, Window's 95.

  • @Oleksz-xk1wm
    @Oleksz-xk1wm 4 года назад

    Great Video Michael

  • @chrisrlillo
    @chrisrlillo 4 года назад +1

    gotta love your video editing haha, pretty clever and well done
    but yea, you just followed the same path as every youtuber does nowadays, but who cares, i don't
    great video dude

  • @KayvonJavid
    @KayvonJavid 4 года назад

    I thought that I had a lot of floppy disks but you have me beat

  • @WitchVillager
    @WitchVillager 4 года назад +1

    Flexing at its max

  • @definitely_notme4112
    @definitely_notme4112 4 года назад +1

    i have a lot too just not as many as you do. I have a whole drawer of them. most of them are smith corona ones.

  • @kopratko
    @kopratko 4 года назад

    Well done. A lot of cool history's.

  • @techcrafter_jw
    @techcrafter_jw 4 года назад +1

    I would directly buy an original copy of Windows 3.11 if I would get the chance.

  • @mccrh7737
    @mccrh7737 4 года назад

    Dope Collection :) Only one bad program in the stack, SoftRam is fake if you want the real thing get Connectix Ram double ;)

  • @D50_Dude
    @D50_Dude 4 года назад

    Do more Macintosh related videos!

  • @masterofdisguise101
    @masterofdisguise101 4 года назад

    i have counted the floppy disks and Michael has over 239 floppy disks!!

  • @jake01756
    @jake01756 4 года назад

    Do another massive floppy install video.

  • @naturexmusic2567
    @naturexmusic2567 7 месяцев назад

    Actually, I was preparing for a Computer Architecture exam and came across this video in my playlist. If you don't mind, could I get one of these floppy disks? (I ordered online and got scammed ) I have a vast collection of software CDs all around my room, but adding a gangsta floppy to my collection would be great for me.

  • @somitguha3232
    @somitguha3232 4 года назад

    That's what revisiting past means!

  • @dovesveins333
    @dovesveins333 4 года назад

    maybe you could attempt to install the 5 1/2 inch IBM disks and rewrite the label?? id like to see whats actually on them :0

  • @MCPEngu1
    @MCPEngu1 4 года назад

    Nice. I want a floppy disk in my life :(

  • @elliotk9291
    @elliotk9291 4 года назад

    "Window's 95 'CD'-setup boot disk ver 2.0"

  • @MaskedGEEK
    @MaskedGEEK 4 года назад

    Michael did you ever have the Cmopaq Rack Builder diskettes? I used that software to see how to build rack servers and see how my configs would affect power requirements, UPS load as well as server functionality. I loved it.

  • @addiesworld1855
    @addiesworld1855 4 года назад

    I heard that Windows 95 was released on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks. I wonder if you would be able to find that. I haven't seen it anywhere.

  • @mrparalyzed6024
    @mrparalyzed6024 4 года назад

    I only have 5 floppy disks in my collection. 2 of those are 5 3/4 inches.

  • @kimnice
    @kimnice 4 года назад

    Around 5:00 it was said that Windows 95 was 29 disks: Wasn't retail-version of Windows 95 21 disks? OEM versions had more disks: My PC from that era had Win95 pre-installed, but they didn't include a installation cd. They included this utility to make installation floppies + stickers for them. This utility needed 37 disks. That's 21 disks for OS and 16 disks for drivers and bloatware.

  • @mirelmoisa3918
    @mirelmoisa3918 4 года назад

    Cool Michael :)

  • @blainepalmerza
    @blainepalmerza 4 года назад

    Awesome video, Michael!

  • @amaxamon
    @amaxamon 4 года назад

    Do you know of a way to get data off of diskettes that are formatted for old computers? I've had no luck.

  • @glddesk
    @glddesk 4 года назад

    hope to see GEOS video soon , :)

  • @thatoneuser5066
    @thatoneuser5066 4 года назад

    9:00 Yes. That was from the Indiana University Windows 98 video if I remember correctly.

  • @domonateor9209
    @domonateor9209 4 года назад

    I've never seen Microsoft floppy disks with those labels. All of the ones I own have the Microsoft logo in the top right and the software name down the left side of the label. Are the other labels older variations of the ones I have or are they later?

  • @ClonkAndre
    @ClonkAndre 4 года назад

    Can you make a video about the Windows 10 Development?

  • @windowsfan95
    @windowsfan95 4 года назад

    Sportster Winmodem.
    They had a lot off creative names back then.

  • @PhantomFist37
    @PhantomFist37 4 года назад

    I would like to see a video on old Office suites. Not just Microsoft's

  • @paulkratky9469
    @paulkratky9469 4 года назад

    Came from soft ram and stayed for the floppys

  • @themacintoshnerd
    @themacintoshnerd 4 года назад

    this video reminds me of DankPods style of video

  • @abdulwadood4394
    @abdulwadood4394 4 года назад

    That is alot of floppy disk

  • @oseltamgadge4067
    @oseltamgadge4067 3 года назад

    is there any way to get a full set of windows 3.1 floppy disks ?

  • @MungunzagasJargalsaikhan
    @MungunzagasJargalsaikhan 2 года назад

    I have a crap ton of movie DVDs.

  • @nekrugderzweite8298
    @nekrugderzweite8298 4 года назад

    Im only 17 years old and have no floppy disc near :( But i really enjoy your vids!!

  • @djthomas1424
    @djthomas1424 4 года назад

    Wow

  • @kennysbusdrawings
    @kennysbusdrawings 4 года назад

    Cd or Dvd collection?

  • @CoTeCiOtm
    @CoTeCiOtm 4 года назад

    I was wondering what happened that I wasn't getting any sort of notification from your videos, and I tried to turn on the bell in your channel but it says it's disabled for content made for kids. What's that about?

  • @Pacificbell
    @Pacificbell Год назад

    I have 5 floppy diskettes not much

  • @armandobueno1681
    @armandobueno1681 4 года назад

    I feel very fortunate to be in the first views of this video cause I'm sure it will suddenly pop up in everyone's recommendations

  • @vendybirdsvadl7472
    @vendybirdsvadl7472 4 года назад

    I got floppies too but my Is corrupted Windows 95 os disk And some Office software