A case of floppy disks, the trigger to my decision to spend the moneys on CD-RW. After a 45min bus trip to a friend's house to bring back a box full of game ROMs, on the good old 56k modem days, I was happily decompressing the file when a disk in the middle failed... I must have look like Scarlett O'Hara, with my fist in the air, swearing things...
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A Hang In The Linux Kernel Can Happen If Trying To Read A Broken Floppy Then Ejecting It
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Originally posted by baka0815 View Post
Floppy disks are like Jesus- they died to become the icon of saving.
schmidtbag A hand with a pen is mostly used to "edit" (or change) something, not saving the changes. So I think that chance is lost.
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post
We could just update the icon...
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Or tell kids that a the floppy icon is a first gen SD card and see how long it takes them to figure out we're all lying.
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It will be interesting to see ultimately how long the floppy disk driver remains within the mainline kernel. Floppies are still used within some industrial equipment still but such systems don't tend to see new major kernel versions.
But guess what that modern computer needs in order to talk to the old equipment? A floppy drive.
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View Post
We could just update the icon...
micro-sd-card-icon-01-.jpg?1459754397&s=091ea08e6a9874933cd6f7b79ea7c73c.jpg
Or tell kids that a the floppy icon is a first gen SD card and see how long it takes them to figure out we're all lying.
Even my parents know some basic shortcuts. That includes saving (with the more "normal" Cmd-S/Ctrl-S). And the pieces of software that use something more unusual than that (emacs, nano, vi, ...) usually don't have the toolbar buttons anyway (not that most "normal" users would interact with it anyway). So arguably the image (and button) is completely redundant.
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Originally posted by ALRBP View PostFloppies will never disappear ! They are now known to everyone as the standard symbol for "save", even though no one saves anything on a floppy today and lots of young people never actually used one (Oh no ! I'm old !).
Did I mention the Windows 9x/2x Explorer network share icon? Besides the hard disk icon part, it depicts a _T connector known from coax networks_. In contemporary Windows, the hard disk was replaced by a screen already, but the T connector stayed. Unforgivable! (1994 wants its 10BASE2 back)Last edited by uxmkt; 03 December 2021, 03:21 PM.
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Originally posted by ALRBP View PostFloppies will never disappear ! They are now known to everyone as the standard symbol for "save", even though no one saves anything on a floppy today and lots of young people never actually used one (Oh no ! I'm old !).
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