FUJIFILM MF2HD Formatted 1.44MB c. 2001
These 3 floppies hold documentation of an old art project and a backup of an old art website. There is this guy in Saskatchewan, PhotoJim, who wrote a post “Our friend the floppy disk” in April 2010. He still uses them – at work no less! – but I wonder if the passage of two years has meant that even he must retreat from the position of valuing them.
I keep these for the kind of backwards coolness they have. I copied (I hope) the work that was on them a long time ago – possibly to a hard drive that failed – and archive.org probably has the site backed up. So they’re not needed as a last resort backup. But there’s something about their solidity, despite the floppy name, and that they are compact, which entitles them to some shelf space.
Status: Keep for the time machine.
Update May 15th, 2012: The floppy icon is under siege. Check out another obsolescence blog on the future of the floppy disc icon.
As you suggest, I always wondered where the floppy part was.
You could probably get some Zip disks put in there too. Sure they’re newer and hold something like 100MB, but they seem so ancient now. Maybe some Jaz disks too. 🙂
I had a zip disk and I remember the moment it had the click of death sound – never had any jaz ones though:)