• @mvirts
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    773 months ago

    Flip the plastic chicklet in your floppy disk so you dont accidentally erase it.

    • @lemmy_at_em
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      193 months ago

      Cutting a notch in your floppy disk to write protect it…

      • @sramder
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        163 months ago

        Don’t forget the stickers to un-write protect it :-)

      • @[email protected]
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        133 months ago

        Chewing up a piece of paper and shove the goo into the holes of a casette you didn’t like so you could record on it

        • @nilaus
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          143 months ago

          You could also just have put tape over the hole…

        • kronisk
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          83 months ago

          We’d put tape over the holes, I remember recording Death Metal albums over my parents old exercise cassettes, for example.

    • @mPony
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      123 months ago

      Same thing for VHS tapes. That had to be something **super **important, like if they showed Raiders on TV

    • Flying Squid
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      63 months ago

      Cut a little square hole in the side of a 5.25" floppy to double its capacity.

    • @Passerby6497
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      43 months ago

      Or, as my lazy ass would do sometimes, move the slider and grab a magnet so maybe my “homework” wouldn’t load and I’d get another day.