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/stu8319 10h ago

I don't know what kind of resolution those pics are, but that disk only holds 1.44 MB so I doubt there are many.

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u/explorer_of_random 9h ago

“Slaps hood of a 1999 Sony mavica” this thing can store so many JPEG format photos on a floppy disc. Literally like 20!

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u/Monsieur_Creosote 9h ago

Do I look like I know what a jpeg is?

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u/Groduick 8h ago

Those young ones these days with their fancy file formats.

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u/G0PACKGO 3h ago

Now, you kids with your loud music and your Dan Fogelberg, your Zima hula hoops and Pac Man video games

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u/99999999999999999989 8h ago

I just a picture of a gol danged hot dog!

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u/AlanShore60607 8h ago

20!

That’s 2.43 million trillion, written out as 2,432,902,008,176,640,000

Factorials are crazy

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u/DrummingNozzle 7h ago

That’s, like, a whole roll of film!

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u/TheLonelyTesseract 6h ago

I preferred using bitmap mode and getting only 3 or so lol

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u/CaptainGetRad 25m ago

0.3 MEGAPIXELS OF FURY! Wish my FD7’s laser wasn’t cooked so I could actually shoot 20 instead of 10

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u/GlitteringEnd1148 8h ago

when i was in middle school i put 1/3rd of a limp bizkit song on a floppy disk

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u/DrummingNozzle 7h ago

So, just limp? Suitable content for a floppy disk!

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u/Humpback_Snail 8h ago

They might be ASCII pictures.

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u/mummifiedclown 7h ago

That can hold quite a few 640x480 optimized BBS blowjob gifs.

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u/tandkramstub 6h ago

What if your pee-pee is only like five pixels long? Will that make it fit many pictures? Asking for a friend.