I found a couple a while back and finally trashed them.
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Totally agree on that one.
makes me want to make a 5.25 floppy lapel pin I gotta say.
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I have a celophaned box of Elephant brand 5.25 floppies. 
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If you go that far you can probably do a ZIP Drive and a Bernoulli Box too!
The only reason I don’t is because all of that stuff drowned in Hurricane Katrina and I moved on to newer formats of storage like CD-ROM and Bluray. Now both of those formats are suffering from “disk rot” and losing data.
CD-ROM would be a good pin too!
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I do have some Jaz cartridges. Hmmmm… thanks for the idea we might have a zip drive someplace too. my wife used those for work.
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So retro! Nice!
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I thought of LPs and CDs. The challenge is making them interesting and read as those things at a glance. For bonus points, the CD-ROM could use one of those carriage trays from before they invented the slide-out drawers.
A few years ago, I rounded up all the stray floppies here and archived them into the smallest corner of my NAS. I kept a huge bag of wiped floppies for use as photo props, in projects, etc. I do still have a binder with floppies of specific software like one of the first LAN games and Windows 3.11.
I have USB floppy and Zip drives, and a couple 3.5” and 5” IDE drives in case I need them (like to make a floppotron or something, I guess …)
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That is amazing. This song was linked right under your video link
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nice
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Thx!
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Thx. Same to you!
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I went to an art gallery in Park City a couple months ago and saw art like this:
Source: Canvas - floppy disc artwork | Nick Gentry
It was really cool in person.
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Looks great! You may want to include one more inlay for those of us who live dangerously and want the disk to be writeable…
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my first cell sorter used 8" floppy discs.
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Unless it’s in the down position, but yeah, mostly!
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Ahh! Okay, I see what @glowforge28 was saying.
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I had a PCjr with cartridge slots. The SS 5.25” drive was an upgrade. 
Oh, and don’t forget cassette tapes! If you took the machine language course in my engineering program you had to use those. I really wanted to do that one but couldn’t squeeze in another elective my last semester. (Just barely made it even so; my son Ryan made his appearance a week after graduation.)
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A cassette tape is the only one definitely on my list so far.
I remember having software (like the original Colossal Cave adventure) that took over an hour to load onto the TRS-80 Model I from cassette.
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Coleco Adam represent!
(not really, it was a total dead-end, and I say that as a VIC-20 owner)
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