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I found this old software on a medium I don't recognize at my church. Does anyone know if this has value to anybody? this

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[–] jsveiga@sh.itjust.works 196 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (29 children)

It's the guts of 3.5" floppies, like these, they usually stored 720kB, then 1.44MB, but the latest versions (double sided) were 2.88MB.

The larger one at the bottom is from a 5 1/4" (orange in this picture, the big daddy in the picture is 8", first type I used, with COBOL)

... and now you kids know where the "save" button icon came from.

They were not meant to be removed from their protective envelopes, they're probably damaged now.

[–] Philote@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

First game I ever played was on those 8” floppies. It was a turtle game where you would type in DOS commands and make it move. I can’t remember the command prompts but it was fun enter like forward 1000 and it would blast across the screen.

[–] cousinofjah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds like Logo

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