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Uses for old Floppy Disks

  • 01-09-2005 9:28am
    #1
    Big Dee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭


    In recent years the 3.5in floppy disks seem to have all but dissapeared. Most new pc's don't even have a floppy drive. I have about 50 of these disks now-all blank and formatted, but they are no use to me. I know our office has many more. Is it a case of dumping these or is there somewhere/someone who'd get some use out of them?
    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    ambro25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    Target practice


  • #3
    c - 13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭c - 13


    You could throw a message up in one of the for sale forums ?
    If none of the boardsies want them maybe they know someone who might ?


  • #4
    Big Dee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭Big Dee


    I seen a program on TV recently where Brazil's poor are being educated on pc's that we wouldn't look at. Surprising no charity has started a "collect a floppy" campaign!


  • #5
    qz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    Frisbees?


  • #6
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Can never have enough of them. Great for boot-disks, and getting stuff off NT machine's (USB doesn't work well with NT).


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  • #7
    paconnors
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭paconnors


    Coasters for Tea/Coffee Mugs - Glasses


  • #8
    parasite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,077 ✭✭✭parasite


    why, make a starship enterprise of course


  • #9
    ambro25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    mikegannon wrote:
    Coasters for Tea/Coffee Mugs - Glasses

    AOL promo CDs are better, IMO - after a quick trip in the microwave, fah'sure...


  • #10
    Anchises
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Anchises


    why, make a starship enterprise of course

    Hey that's neat ! - Just made 1 :D

    A.


  • #11
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,284 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Put a Boards.ie shortcut on all the discs. Then, label them all. On the labels, write things like "Porn", "Private", "Top Secret", "Accounts" etc. etc. - then distribute them around town, leaving them in shops, cafés, pubs, restaurants, parks and so on.



    This idea may or may not have been ripped off some other site, depending on if anyone can find the URL or not...


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  • #12
    scribs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭scribs


    RobertFoster wrote:
    Put a Boards.ie shortcut on all the discs. Then, label them all. On the labels, write things like "Porn", "Private", "Top Secret", "Accounts" etc. etc. - then distribute them around town, leaving them in shops, cafés, pubs, restaurants, parks and so on.

    Quality Idea


  • #13
    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Pull back the slider and try fire it over 20 feet, difficult to do as theres only one way to make it fire.


    You have 50 goes.............


    kdjac


  • #14
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    the_syco wrote:
    Can never have enough of them. Great for boot-disks, and getting stuff off NT machine's (USB doesn't work well with NT).
    This is an understatement - legend has it some devices have NT USB drivers, but I've never seen one in real life and it sounds even worse than mixing point enabled pcmcia drivers in DOS

    anyway usually not an issue - you can use a Knoppix boot disk to get stuff off an NT machine unless it has SCSI RAID - in which case it's fun and games if NT won't boot , 3.9 also picks USB memory sticks / USB hard drives on the fly too.

    Alternatively you could use a dos boot disk with NTFSDOS to pull files off an NT box as some RAID 5 SCSI arrays are visible to DOS


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