Technology

3.5-inch floppy disk

It was square, with a sliding metal shutter and a little tab to stop anything being written. 1.44 MB sounds tiny, but it held a whole essay, a few small photos and usually a free virus too.

Drive A: would grind away for a while and then announce that it could not read the disk, always on the day you needed to print your homework. Today the floppy lives on only as the “Save” icon in every program.

Do you remember? Did you ever lose homework to a broken floppy?

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