3 1/4 inch floppy disks?

[Fred588]

I have about 150 3 1/4 inch floppy disks to give away if anyone has a use for them. Obviously they are useless for their original purpose but I ask because sometimes alternative uses turn up if you have a lot of something. They go in the trash collection in about a week if no one wants them.

[QuicksandMania]

I think you mean either 3.5" or 5.25" disks.

I have never heard of 3.25" disks.

[Fred588]

I think you mean either 3.5" or 5.25" disks.

I have never heard of 3.25" disks.

Yes, 3.5"

[H8ms2014]

Floppies are useless, but maybe you can use them as a prop as a flashback scene of a "Geek Grrl" reminiscing of her first love with quicksand, or something like that.

[Mynock]

Dude check it out......somebody like 3D Printed the save button.......
I have one of the super old school 12" disks floating around somewhere.

[Aiko]

Good riddance!

[Duncan Edwards]

Yeah, I have an unopened case of the things. Still got 40mb reels on a rack from IBM 360/370 days. I remember dreaming about having enough and now I can't give them away.

[Fred588]

If anyone wanted them for actual storage I would recommend some therapy along the way. I offered them here figuring someone might have something else they might be used for. Coasters? Somehow I expect making a floppy disk bikini would not he highly successful. As for the 5 1/4 inch disks, they went into the trash a long time ago.

[Duncan Edwards]

I do that a lot. Always trying to come up with some kind of brilliant alternative use for things like that and the small warehouse full of retired but still functional technology that I have to get hauled off every year. I keep some of it just for "what if" purposes but I never need any of it unless I throw it out. Then the fates and gremlins make certain I need it right away.

[Aiko]

Good news, Fred! Apparently there's some people out there who can still use those floppies:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36385839