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

    • lemmy_at_em
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      1 year ago

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

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

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        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

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          You could also just have put tape over the hole…

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

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

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

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      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.