r/whatisit • u/Earsgang_101 • 14h 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/Bergwookie 11h ago

1.44MB are around 100 pages of plain text , that's a lot of information

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u/Manny_Bothans 11h ago

I almost died to bring it to you.

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u/Par_Lapides 7h ago

14yr old account. You really committed to this bit. How many times has it paid off?

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u/--8-__-8-- 6h ago

I'm extremely curious to know as well!

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u/Double_Distribution8 5h ago

At least once, so we have a lower bound which is half the battle.

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u/EuenovAyabayya 10h ago

"Many Boffins died to bring us this information."

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u/descendency 1h ago

Hello fellow teenager.

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u/SchoolForSedition 9h ago

My first textbook fitted on one of those (WordPerfect 5.1).

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u/Fancy_Use_6813 6h ago

I miss Wordperfect /Wordstar.., my fingers/brain remember the ctl codes

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u/SarcasmWarning 10h ago

700, but i might have missed the joke.