All my floppies were neon colored at one point, except for the ones I bought from the library at my high school. I think I was the last generation to use floppy disks in high school for transferring files LOL
Same. When I started 6th grade in 2005, we were actually instructed to bring three disks to class and give them to the teacher. The teacher took them, never did anything with them, and we didn't get them back! I think it was 10th grade, 2010, when I finally stopped using floppies to store school documents. We got new computers in the school, and they didn't have floppy drives. I had a shiny new 2 GB flash drive.
@themaritimeman They used them for that long? I graduated back in 2004! I remember those USB drives were just becoming a thing and they were ridiculously expensive. My brother started high school in '06, and he had a 128MB thumb drive to take to school, so I'm not sure if anybody else still used floppies (I know they still had the old computers that were brand new when I was in school haha)
Well, they were a requirement in the curriculum for my 6th grade class, but we never actually used them. That was the last time floppy disks were ever even mentioned in my education. As for my personal use of them, I was an abnormal case. My friends were all using flash drives by the mid 2000's, but I was still using floppy disks because I had plenty of them and I didn't need anything larger. Flash drives were an unnecessary luxury to me. Those were the days.
There's something so satisfying about popping a floppy drive into a computer... I remember some of the computers we used early in elementary school still used the 5 1/4" floppies, but I mostly grew up using 3 1/2" floppies.
necroing a dead thread but my High School used floppies up through 2009 when I graduated. USB Drives were forbidden from being used in the library computers. As were CDs.
Mitsumi's later (2003-up) USB floppy drives also operated at a much higher speed (probably also 2X, but I never timed it) as compared to regular drives. Those Imation diskettes might as well have been "imitation" diskettes. Their newer diskettes seem to be a lot less reliable (and more duds in a new box) than older diskettes. I was very nearly serenaded right out of the room by that startup chime! (See what I did there?)
Found one of these not that long ago, same model, from 2007. Some differences in the box art, added Vista compatibility in the drivers and Sony swapped out the Sapphire Blue faceplate for a Midnight Black one. Doesn't seem like they were flying off the shelves, Fry's Electronics wanted $49.99 for it originally.
I have one, bought it new from Best Buy in 2009 or 2010, the date on the bottom says March of 2009, so Sony made them for quite some time. The thing works really well under Windows 7, 10 and OS X 10.9. I use it to image floppies and copy data to older machines.
3:33 -- "This USB *drove* accommodates only 2DD or 2HD floppy disks." That's grammatically incorrect. It should've said "This USB *had been driven* accommodates..." :P
It's a shame most things older than 2000 are automatically tagged as "vintage" and their price inflated by 10 times as well! Come on, a broken 5,25" floppy drive for 98€?! Or a "non-tested" Epson dot matrix printer for "only" 250€...
Yes, 5,25 drivers are very rare and expensive. :S 98€ for a broken drive is too much!!! Even for a fully working drive! I had luck, i found one computer on recicle with a 5,25 drive. The drive itself have more value than all computer including the monitor.
Floppy disk were also used for Japanese and American PCs at the time to play games Did you know that Sony was originally a computer manufacturer that started with the Sony Smc-70 (Sony Micro Computer 70) and the Sony Smc-777 ( Sony Micro Computer 777)
A lot of companies, including house branded compusa sold 2x floppy drives. Sabrent still sells them new for $15. Very handy to have. Too bad there were never true internal 2x or 4x floppy drives made, but only the LS-120/240 IDE drives.
The install manual reminds me of the manual that came with my early 2000's Mp3 player. It goes on a long Stephen King novel about installing the software and drivers on Windows 98 and at the end of the manual it says that if you are using Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP, you do not need to do any of this as the USB drivers are already installed.
I bought the exact same floppy drive back when it was new. It worked ok for about two years. Then, it stopped reading/writing from/onto my floppies. Even brand new out of the box floppies didn't work. The curious guy I am, I took the floppy disks apart. I discovered a major scratch about in the middle of the magnetic discs. It looked kind of like a groove on a vinyl record. Something inside the floppy drive scratched the disks and destroyed them. Now, I use one of my old pentium 2 machines that has an actual floppy drive, to clone images on to physical disks. Works way better and it doesn't mess up my floppies. Amazon and ebay still sells new floppies but they're expensive these days. Same thing with Cassette Tapes, Mini-DV tapes or any sort of magnetic format for that matter.
That's very intriguing that Sony made their own drive rather than using the same Teac drive that they used in the Mavicas. Likewise it's odd that they never made their own drives for the Mavicas to start with.
Extremely thorough video. I thought once we hit the showstopper that was it, but you went and got another one. I can think of another UA-camr who would have carried on the video for 25 minutes, and then when that happened, he'd put on his top hat and tails and tap-dance his way out of the video, in another 3 minutes. *cough* bbishoppcm *cough*
YES! I can't post a link because it will go right to spam, but see his video entitled "TV Tuner on Windows 98 PC". He carries on for 18 minutes about how cool it's gonna be, then talks about boats because it doesn't work.
Honestly, I love the stuff he makes videos about, but the videos themselves are so frustrating to watch that I don't really watch him anymore. Mostly it's the wealth of incorrect information and the complete lack of editing. And of course the tendency to totally discard something when anything goes wrong, rather than troubleshoot it.
I picked up one of these brand new in the box from a comp USA store in Manhattan when the stores were going out of business for 4.00 but it didn't come with the extra discs. I also picked up 5 packages of Fisher space pen refills at the same store for 50 cents each. Man, those were the days.
This is the second time I've stumbled onto one of your review videos, the first being on the jensen tape recorder which I ended up seeking out and buying. Great videos!
Actually, there is one downside to a USB floppy -- you can't read disks from other old computers on them. There are tools that can hack an internal floppy controller to read odd disk formats (like Commodore 1581) but these tools don't work with USB drives.
LMAO I was thinking this reminded me of an LGR video, then loe and behold the first comment i see, is a comment from LGR himself, another awesome video, still surprised this channel hasn't gotten more traction by now!
I got one of these Sony 2x drives recently (end of May), and as it's 4am and I'm bored, I decided to test mine versus my long-time owned Toshiba-branded USB drive (TEAC mech inside), and in my case format is 2.2x faster, and writing a DOS622 bootdisk image is 2.9x faster than the Toshiba drive!! Of course that's my experience, other drives may produce differing results... :)
I picked up the same Sony 2X model cheap (without the box) at a thrift store a few years ago. It worked fine on my Windows 7 PC for copying off some old floppies. Mine has a date of May 2009.
"Imitation floppy disks" Oh my fucking god. XD You're an awesome UA-camr! Definitely one of my absolute favourites. BTW, that's not a lot of icons. I have probably... 40-75?
I have a spare Mavica 4x drive that came out of one of their later cameras. When you disassembled yours, do you recall if it looked like they'd just tacked on an extra board to handle the USB interface? Like might it be possible to hybrid the two together and make a 4x USB floppy drive? That would be neat!
I have one of these drives myself, found it bare-drive at one of the thrift shops, I really don't remember which. mine has the blue skin on it, and works a treat! I used to have a couple different 2X speed drives in the past but after an accidental fall, one of them died, and the other one decided "hey I'm gonna just quit working today" and did so.
Have one of those 2x drive Mavica cameras. Sony went all the way up to 4x before giving up on the medium. Sadly, no one bothered to make high speed internal 3.5 floppy drives. Computers that used to write to standard cassette tape (Commodore, Amiga, Atari) had high speed loaders. On a PC floppies haven't deviated from the standard speed since the 80's.
So, these discs were cheap? Why is the self cleaning area so tiny? All the discs I've ever opened had a sandwich of cleaning material around the magnetic disc, not just a little area. Maybe because they are translucent and would look worse?
Oh, geeze, how unfortunate. I can't believe that head breakage was the fate of your cool floppy disk drive before you got your replacement! Oh well, at least the replacement wasn't very expensive.
the only people (and things) that need these are executives that have a to transfer their presentations blazing fast and sony mavicas (a sony mavica could have a 4x fdd)
@@vwestlife Haha! I thought the whole forum world was joking when they used to clamor about _"The clicking ping sounds of death"_ concerning my 60 plus collection of *Iomega* Zip100 Drive/Disks! What was the final solution to that crap disk situation? *WD40* ?
I got a zip-drive. It is like a floppy but then bigger, heavier and its faster big brother. Of course it also has the problems of a floppy. Silly Iomega! Still fun to own, even though its use is limited to older machines. Because well.. older stuff.
I am one of those weirdos that has a Panasonic Palmcam with a Superdisk 120 drive in it. I even got the original media, and the battery is still good!!! :-)
I have one of those Sony MPF88E drives :) I use it to make floppies for various vintage PC computers (they really come in handy for loading AHCI drivers or similar as well)
I don't even think that back in 2003 that using a 2x floppy drive was even feasible since most people by then have already moved away from using floppies to rewritable CDs. I guess thats why they were never popular.
Sorry to be nitpicky, but the floppy disk companies name is pronounced eye-mation, not im·i·ta·tion. Take notice that it's spelled with only two i's while the word imitation is spelled with three i's.
I remember almost buying the Sony floppy drive in 2006 because my comp at the time no longer had a floppy drive. Didn't get it because it was too expensive($50ish?) for what it was. Ended getting the same IBM external with original storage pouch on ebay for $8.
is this quicker than a superdisk on 1.44mb media? I heard those had 2x+ read/write speed with 1.44mb media. If I was in the market would probably go this route
I found an old Performa 400 which I repaired I've ordered an ethernet card and will try to connect it to the internet. Your webpage seems like a good candidate to try with :)
I'm starting to think that these would be best for downloading drivers and software on for those Vintage PC/Vintage Mac collectors, since a lot of 20 - 25 year old PCs and Macs rely on floppies for drivers, as well as installing MS-DOS, or older versions of Mac OS, and Windows 3.1, etc... So there ARE reasons for people to still want these.
I use a USB floppy drive with my PowerBook G4 to make floppies for use on my vintage Macs. It's a lifesaver since it's the only easy way I have to transfer data to them, or to boot them if the system software ever had to be reinstalled.
Now that I saw this demonstration, I'm thinking of looking for one of these to make old software floppies for a Vintage IBM PC 3xx Series that I have around.
11:16 - I mean come on, how did Sony manage to make a floppy drive mechanism where the alignment rail pops out of its mounting... clip? when you ship it somewhere... Is this common to the slim-line drive mechanisms or is it really just this thing?
Curious if this is a 3-mode floppy. I currently use a Powerbook 3400C as my "bridge Mac" for writing old 400K and 800K Mac disks. It would be nice to use my iBook G3 instead.
Always hoping to find one of these while thrifting someday. Nice overview, sir!
Never thought I'd see you here. :D
I'd like to find one too would have made my Floppydroid video on my other channel go a bit faster!! :P
Oh hai LGR
Why not? He's part of the old stuff trifecta of himself, vwestlife, and uxwbill!
I have two of them with both colors. if intrested, lmk.
Those are definitely not imitation floppy disks, they're very much real floppy disks
It was a pun on the brand name Imation.
VWestlife I know. ;)
Dry sarcasm doesn't work online.
Some people won't get that joke. But I did.
How many decades did you have to wait to use that joke? :(
I bet almost all of that software in that computer was installed simply by ticking every single box in Ninite.
Indeed it was!
I never knew that a 2x speed floppy drive even existed. Yet another item I must keep a look out for while at the thrift store.
"Oddware".
Thought this was an LGR video when I clicked on it. Was slightly confused.
I have done several Oddware videos before. LGR's videos are always clearly marked as "LGR" in the title so you can't confuse them with anyone else.
Yeah I'm a little baked at the moment so easily confused.
Great video though! :)
Will now look up more of your oddware videos!
LGR's videos also have the hard to miss green watermark on the thumbnails.
Same thing just happened to me - but its a great video nonetheless, will have to binge watch these oddware vids
All my floppies were neon colored at one point, except for the ones I bought from the library at my high school. I think I was the last generation to use floppy disks in high school for transferring files LOL
Same. When I started 6th grade in 2005, we were actually instructed to bring three disks to class and give them to the teacher. The teacher took them, never did anything with them, and we didn't get them back!
I think it was 10th grade, 2010, when I finally stopped using floppies to store school documents. We got new computers in the school, and they didn't have floppy drives. I had a shiny new 2 GB flash drive.
@themaritimeman They used them for that long? I graduated back in 2004! I remember those USB drives were just becoming a thing and they were ridiculously expensive. My brother started high school in '06, and he had a 128MB thumb drive to take to school, so I'm not sure if anybody else still used floppies (I know they still had the old computers that were brand new when I was in school haha)
Well, they were a requirement in the curriculum for my 6th grade class, but we never actually used them. That was the last time floppy disks were ever even mentioned in my education.
As for my personal use of them, I was an abnormal case. My friends were all using flash drives by the mid 2000's, but I was still using floppy disks because I had plenty of them and I didn't need anything larger. Flash drives were an unnecessary luxury to me. Those were the days.
There's something so satisfying about popping a floppy drive into a computer... I remember some of the computers we used early in elementary school still used the 5 1/4" floppies, but I mostly grew up using 3 1/2" floppies.
necroing a dead thread but my High School used floppies up through 2009 when I graduated. USB Drives were forbidden from being used in the library computers. As were CDs.
"Bwomping the Macintosh" Haha, gotta love UXWBill!
Mitsumi's later (2003-up) USB floppy drives also operated at a much higher speed (probably also 2X, but I never timed it) as compared to regular drives.
Those Imation diskettes might as well have been "imitation" diskettes. Their newer diskettes seem to be a lot less reliable (and more duds in a new box) than older diskettes.
I was very nearly serenaded right out of the room by that startup chime! (See what I did there?)
W h o m p i n g t h e M a c i n t o s h
Found one of these not that long ago, same model, from 2007. Some differences in the box art, added Vista compatibility in the drivers and Sony swapped out the Sapphire Blue faceplate for a Midnight Black one. Doesn't seem like they were flying off the shelves, Fry's Electronics wanted $49.99 for it originally.
Imagine having a 52x Floppy drive. How would such drive behave, anyone knows?
MegaBojan1993 read/write head would destroy the disk.
Probably the whole thing would caught on fire from all that friction :)
It would never reach 52x disk speed. The disk would tear before reaching speed.
Yeah, SSD speeds for a floppy drive :D
Philip vB It theoretically reach HDD drive speeds, but never the SSD ones :)
I have one, bought it new from Best Buy in 2009 or 2010, the date on the bottom says March of 2009, so Sony made them for quite some time.
The thing works really well under Windows 7, 10 and OS X 10.9. I use it to image floppies and copy data to older machines.
Glad to know this works well under Windows 10.
3:33 -- "This USB *drove* accommodates only 2DD or 2HD floppy disks."
That's grammatically incorrect. It should've said "This USB *had been driven* accommodates..." :P
I think it was a typo that meant drive.
Perfect example of
Just because it's new in box doesn't mean it's gonna work
Oh wow, I used those exact Imation floppies back in the day. Those disks at the back are blurple!
I'm one of your younger viewers but I fave been playing with floppies for years. I recently opened a pack of 5 1/4 inch floppies for my DOS Machine.
It's a shame most things older than 2000 are automatically tagged as "vintage" and their price inflated by 10 times as well!
Come on, a broken 5,25" floppy drive for 98€?! Or a "non-tested" Epson dot matrix printer for "only" 250€...
Yes, 5,25 drivers are very rare and expensive. :S 98€ for a broken drive is too much!!! Even for a fully working drive! I had luck, i found one computer on recicle with a 5,25 drive. The drive itself have more value than all computer including the monitor.
Floppy disk were also used for Japanese and American PCs at the time to play games
Did you know that Sony was originally a computer manufacturer that started with the Sony Smc-70 (Sony Micro Computer 70) and the Sony Smc-777 ( Sony Micro Computer 777)
A lot of companies, including house branded compusa sold 2x floppy drives. Sabrent still sells them new for $15. Very handy to have. Too bad there were never true internal 2x or 4x floppy drives made, but only the LS-120/240 IDE drives.
"Imitation floppy disks"
Oh my fucking god. XD
You're an awesome UA-camr! Definitely one of my absolute favourites.
Windows XP is the best Windows ever
The white glossy faceplate makes it really looked 2010s and more like an external HDD, in my opinion.
The install manual reminds me of the manual that came with my early 2000's Mp3 player. It goes on a long Stephen King novel about installing the software and drivers on Windows 98 and at the end of the manual it says that if you are using Windows 2000, Windows Me, or Windows XP, you do not need to do any of this as the USB drivers are already installed.
I bought the exact same floppy drive back when it was new. It worked ok for about two years. Then, it stopped reading/writing from/onto my floppies. Even brand new out of the box floppies didn't work. The curious guy I am, I took the floppy disks apart. I discovered a major scratch about in the middle of the magnetic discs. It looked kind of like a groove on a vinyl record. Something inside the floppy drive scratched the disks and destroyed them. Now, I use one of my old pentium 2 machines that has an actual floppy drive, to clone images on to physical disks. Works way better and it doesn't mess up my floppies. Amazon and ebay still sells new floppies but they're expensive these days. Same thing with Cassette Tapes, Mini-DV tapes or any sort of magnetic format for that matter.
That's very intriguing that Sony made their own drive rather than using the same Teac drive that they used in the Mavicas. Likewise it's odd that they never made their own drives for the Mavicas to start with.
Sony will be Sony.
Also it is Imation, not Imitation.
kek
It's Kevin's pun on the brand.
Extremely thorough video. I thought once we hit the showstopper that was it, but you went and got another one. I can think of another UA-camr who would have carried on the video for 25 minutes, and then when that happened, he'd put on his top hat and tails and tap-dance his way out of the video, in another 3 minutes. *cough* bbishoppcm *cough*
jaykay18 example?
YES! I can't post a link because it will go right to spam, but see his video entitled "TV Tuner on Windows 98 PC". He carries on for 18 minutes about how cool it's gonna be, then talks about boats because it doesn't work.
Lol, that channel still exists?
_Yeah..._
Honestly, I love the stuff he makes videos about, but the videos themselves are so frustrating to watch that I don't really watch him anymore. Mostly it's the wealth of incorrect information and the complete lack of editing. And of course the tendency to totally discard something when anything goes wrong, rather than troubleshoot it.
I picked up one of these brand new in the box from a comp USA store in Manhattan when the stores were going out of business for 4.00 but it didn't come with the extra discs. I also picked up 5 packages of Fisher space pen refills at the same store for 50 cents each. Man, those were the days.
Oh man, I used to own a set of those colourful floppies. They are so awesome.
I think *we'd all* be a little stiff if we'd been sitting in a box since 2003.
😂
This is the second time I've stumbled onto one of your review videos, the first being on the jensen tape recorder which I ended up seeking out and buying. Great videos!
U have the best voice EVER
Actually, there is one downside to a USB floppy -- you can't read disks from other old computers on them. There are tools that can hack an internal floppy controller to read odd disk formats (like Commodore 1581) but these tools don't work with USB drives.
Extra kudos for the intermission music while the FDD was formatting :)
can tell by all the marketing crap on the box they were desperate to sell them
LMAO I was thinking this reminded me of an LGR video, then loe and behold the first comment i see, is a comment from LGR himself, another awesome video, still surprised this channel hasn't gotten more traction by now!
#jealous of those awesome coloured floppies
eBay, they're cheap
I got one of these Sony 2x drives recently (end of May), and as it's 4am and I'm bored, I decided to test mine versus my long-time owned Toshiba-branded USB drive (TEAC mech inside), and in my case format is 2.2x faster, and writing a DOS622 bootdisk image is 2.9x faster than the Toshiba drive!! Of course that's my experience, other drives may produce differing results... :)
12:18 *ding-dong* Handsome FedEx guy w/ lovely smile.
When the intro started, in my head I was expecting "don't you wish your floppy disk was hot like me".. fuckin...
I picked up the same Sony 2X model cheap (without the box) at a thrift store a few years ago. It worked fine on my Windows 7 PC for copying off some old floppies. Mine has a date of May 2009.
If only x4 fdd were a thing when windows 95 came out. I recall how slow they were, x4 would have been a bliss
"Imitation floppy disks"
Oh my fucking god. XD
You're an awesome UA-camr! Definitely one of my absolute favourites.
BTW, that's not a lot of icons. I have probably... 40-75?
wait until the iBook guy steals yo video
Calling imation imitation never ceases to crack me up.
I have a spare Mavica 4x drive that came out of one of their later cameras. When you disassembled yours, do you recall if it looked like they'd just tacked on an extra board to handle the USB interface? Like might it be possible to hybrid the two together and make a 4x USB floppy drive? That would be neat!
7:36 oh god, that elevator music...
Do you know if these USB floppy drives work with WinImage?
It shows up as an ordinary floppy drive, so yes, WinImage can use it.
I have one of these drives myself, found it bare-drive at one of the thrift shops, I really don't remember which. mine has the blue skin on it, and works a treat! I used to have a couple different 2X speed drives in the past but after an accidental fall, one of them died, and the other one decided "hey I'm gonna just quit working today" and did so.
Damn, the only thing we need now is a drive that can read / write to Macintosh formatted diskettes!
This one can... if you plug it into a Macintosh.
Have one of those 2x drive Mavica cameras. Sony went all the way up to 4x before giving up on the medium. Sadly, no one bothered to make high speed internal 3.5 floppy drives. Computers that used to write to standard cassette tape (Commodore, Amiga, Atari) had high speed loaders. On a PC floppies haven't deviated from the standard speed since the 80's.
Your current weather forecast on MSN said "13F" damn.. and I complain about being cold. :O
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any 3.5” floppies whose cases were translucent like that. Those are pretty kool!
0:23 I have this Sony Mavica model. Fun to play around with.
That is a NICE looking floppy drive tbh.
another youtube gem, im glad i found you!!!
So, these discs were cheap? Why is the self cleaning area so tiny? All the discs I've ever opened had a sandwich of cleaning material around the magnetic disc, not just a little area. Maybe because they are translucent and would look worse?
This has to be your funniest review yet.
Oh, geeze, how unfortunate. I can't believe that head breakage was the fate of your cool floppy disk drive before you got your replacement! Oh well, at least the replacement wasn't very expensive.
I bought multi-colored floppies like those regularly for school.
I like how you take good care of your old tech.
Those floppies make me want Life Savers. I remember 3M made multicolored CD-R's, too.
The 8-bit guy also did a great job on the Mavica, interesting technology just a few years late.
You have a lot of icons on your desktop.
I remember buying one of those imation coloured floppy disk packs from a dollar store like 10 years ago. Haven't bought a floppy disk since.
the only people (and things) that need these are executives that have a to transfer their presentations blazing fast and sony mavicas (a sony mavica could have a 4x fdd)
Imitation? Don't you mean imation?
"Eye may shon
I know. I was joking.
@@vwestlife Haha! I thought the whole forum world was joking when they used to clamor about _"The clicking ping sounds of death"_ concerning my 60 plus collection of *Iomega* Zip100 Drive/Disks! What was the final solution to that crap disk situation? *WD40* ?
I have a White model of this and its served me for years
I got a zip-drive. It is like a floppy but then bigger, heavier and its faster big brother. Of course it also has the problems of a floppy. Silly Iomega!
Still fun to own, even though its use is limited to older machines. Because well.. older stuff.
Just got one of these online, Appears to work well on Windows 11 with USB cable
That format music:D
And remember: "Don't copy that floppy!"
I am one of those weirdos that has a Panasonic Palmcam with a Superdisk 120 drive in it. I even got the original media, and the battery is still good!!! :-)
With respect, I noticed that you pronounced Imation as imitation, you did it twice.
Because it was a joke.
Oh, and it went straight over my head. Sorry about that.
Lifetime warranty. Lifetime ends when the disk fails.
I have one of those Sony MPF88E drives :) I use it to make floppies for various vintage PC computers (they really come in handy for loading AHCI drivers or similar as well)
You better be careful "Womping the Macintosh" like that. Only a true professional like uxwbill should do such things. :)
Hmm, it's funny that Imation calls the colors of those disks "neon," even though neon is only really a bright orange-red.
Maybe you should do the Kenwood 72X CDROM next
Wow I had that same pack of floppy's when I was a kid
I don't even think that back in 2003 that using a 2x floppy drive was even feasible since most people by then have already moved away from using floppies to rewritable CDs. I guess thats why they were never popular.
Don't you wish your floppy was FAST like me...
Looks like you're theory on the drives being excess hardware is correct judging by how the internals looked, that mac makes some weird noises too.
7:00 That quick launch tho...
I liked the music during the formatting of the disk xD Very funny indeed.
Haha thanks the quick 2nd new replacement drive, I was ready to come back for your next episode. this is better than the cooking show :)
USed to take 3hours 50minutes to download Netscape on 2400 dailup modem in New Zealand.
Sorry to be nitpicky, but the floppy disk companies name is pronounced eye-mation, not im·i·ta·tion. Take notice that it's spelled with only two i's while the word imitation is spelled with three i's.
I was making a joke.
I remember almost buying the Sony floppy drive in 2006 because my comp at the time no longer had a floppy drive. Didn't get it because it was too expensive($50ish?) for what it was. Ended getting the same IBM external with original storage pouch on ebay for $8.
Always loved Netscape, it was my daily driver for a long time.
is this quicker than a superdisk on 1.44mb media? I heard those had 2x+ read/write speed with 1.44mb media. If I was in the market would probably go this route
wooWooOO! WOooWooo!
I found an old Performa 400 which I repaired
I've ordered an ethernet card and will try to connect it to the internet.
Your webpage seems like a good candidate to try with :)
I'm starting to think that these would be best for downloading drivers and software on for those Vintage PC/Vintage Mac collectors, since a lot of 20 - 25 year old PCs and Macs rely on floppies for drivers, as well as installing MS-DOS, or older versions of Mac OS, and Windows 3.1, etc... So there ARE reasons for people to still want these.
I use a USB floppy drive with my PowerBook G4 to make floppies for use on my vintage Macs. It's a lifesaver since it's the only easy way I have to transfer data to them, or to boot them if the system software ever had to be reinstalled.
Now that I saw this demonstration, I'm thinking of looking for one of these to make old software floppies for a Vintage IBM PC 3xx Series that I have around.
How did you keep your hands so smooh?
don't you wish your floppy drive was fast like Win ME
don't you wish your floppy read head was broke like Win ME
Good video. Would you please tell me song and artist at 7:36. I would really appreciate it. Thank you.
+Vwestlife Is that the Great wall U310 (Commodore Vic Slim)? If so, how does it handle all of the tasks you've been "throwing" at it?
Yes, and very well.
"Imitation" floppy disks. 😂
That Windows XP bootup sound was perfectly timed with the announcement of the 2x drive! Was that on purpose?
I'd rather have a 2x size floppy drive than 2x speed. Read some of those floppies that all IBM PS/2's 20 years older than this had no problem reading.
On Amazon, these are no longer cheap. They go for $20 to $200 on Amazon.
They're still really cheap on eBay.
Why the heck on Amazon are they so overpriced?
Mine is March 2009 they seem to do them quite some time
11:16 - I mean come on, how did Sony manage to make a floppy drive mechanism where the alignment rail pops out of its mounting... clip? when you ship it somewhere... Is this common to the slim-line drive mechanisms or is it really just this thing?
Curious if this is a 3-mode floppy. I currently use a Powerbook 3400C as my "bridge Mac" for writing old 400K and 800K Mac disks. It would be nice to use my iBook G3 instead.