Where I was it went from 3.5" floppies to USB drives. (There were CDs, but not as easy for things like schoolwork.)

ZIP needed a whole ecosystem of drives, so did you have that?

  • varothEnglish
    18•10 months ago

    Yep. I’ve used 5 1/4s, 3.5s, Zip, CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVDs, DVD-Rs, DVD-RWs, BD, BD-R, BD-RW, Thumb/Flash, SD, Micro SD, and CF. The only one I can think of that I never personally used were Tapes, but I know people who did. They kind of came and went in a hurry it felt like to me.

        • @WhiteOakBayou
          2•10 months ago

          I had never heard of those until now. 5 1/4 disk size with 230 mb sounds pretty sweet

    • MikeEnglish
      3•10 months ago

      I use LTO8 tapes every day in 2024 lol

      • varothEnglish
        2•10 months ago

        I don’t even have a lawn but they need to get off the lawn still!

    • @marx2k
      2•10 months ago

      My first computer, a Commodore 64, was purchased with a tape drive because we were too broke for a 1541 5.25" disk drive.

      I could start a game loading, go eat dinner, come back and it would just be getting around to being done loading.

    • @brygphilomena
      1•10 months ago

      One of the weirder ones was Orb drives/disks.

      I still have this and a zip drive in a box. I’d probably need to see if the USB to serial adapter I have works with it though.