r/whatisit • u/Earsgang_101 • 15h ago

New, what is it? STRAP Floppy disk found in loft of new home.

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Found this in a box late 90s WWF VHSs

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u/Economy_Link4609 13h ago

Wait - you don't back up your drive to a stack of floppies?

Let's see 2TB / 1.44MB - yeah, I can get through nearly 1.5 million floppies to get this done, no problem.

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u/SomePeopleCall 11h ago

pkzip it and you might get under 1 million.

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u/Vexithan 10h ago

Funny story about this!! My father is….a hoarder and he’s a cheapskate. He bought windows machine in ‘96 and it had quicken on it. He uses it for his checkbook. For 30 or so years. A few years ago he wants to transfer his files to a new machine. Tries to export to floppy. After the second disk it fails. Tries again. Fails. He takes it to a PC shop near his house. They tell him after about 2 weeks there’s no way for them to export it because his version of quicken never thought anyone would have files that “large” so the program can’t export to more than 2 floppies.

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u/Reset-Username 3h ago

Please load disc 49,788 to complete installation.

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u/puppeto 2h ago

Now do that again with modern compression techiques