Does it make sense, saving my stories onto floppy disks — or have I gone mad?
Retro and vintage are all the rave and despite all those “trends”, I find myself looking backwards for quite a while regardless. It may be nostalgia, or just that I am fed up with our buzzing world and miss the “good old, simple times”. So I figured:
Vinyls are cool again and even cassettes are coming back, despite them being the inferior storage medium (disregarding personal taste) compared to more modern formats. Why not give floppy disks a chance again?
I was even planning on making fake labels for them, resembling the covers of modern games (which, of course, would never ever, not even remotely, fit on a floppy disk) or use them as storage device for a few short stories at a time.
All of it was a pretty bad idea from start to finish.
Here’s what I’ve learned…
Oh the nostalgia
I remember beginning to use PCs fondly. My very first PC was a Pentium II with 133 MHz, 16 MB Ram (yes, thats megabytes) and an awfully slow hard disk. It was as beige as it gets and it ran Windows 95. Wow.
