Nice collection. Have you created backups of these floppy disks? Just in case something gets lost, especially when all these are very low on size comparing to nowadays "storage size". It would be kind of time consuming (especially difficult with 5 1/4), but probably worth it, don't you think?
That ‘wear’ you’d seen on the 5 1/4” disks is pretty typical for adhesives that are this old, especially if they weren’t somewhere climate controlled. It’s funny to think that if they were made without the stickers and left to the user to apply they’d be in better shape.
Literally same but with CDs. I have at least 3 100-disc spindles of burns, driver discs, games and software. It's funny how much more personal a CD is to someone. Most floppies have such small sizes, it's only really feasible for the essentials.
While many people might think 25 floppy MS office install is just a showoff. It's not it's very real back in the day I did this in 2010 when grandpa was trying to backup some proprietary bank documents from 1995 prior to his retirement. That contained very specific encrypted content which otherwise could not be opened in consumer version of MS Office.
I thought I was he only one... I recently started building sets of Windows and MS-DOS install diskettes and bought about 300. Dunno why I needed that many but why not. Now I have 8 floppy holders full sitting in my office holding all the bits.
I have about this many, but I've thrown out this many because they just generally suck. Pro Tip: If the disk is rainbow colored or transparent, it's new enough to be absolutely terrible. Stick to the black and beige disks. Bonus points if they have metal sliders.
I have a floppy disk of Logitech drivers disk 2. I'm missing disk 1 though. It was for older keyboards and mice. I also have a full backup copy of Windows 98 SE. That came from the old Gateway tower my parents used to have but got rid of it :)
Knew someone who used GeOS to multitask on an XT, I shit you not. He'd be online with it while it printed invoices in the background and did other stuff too. I have a fairly appalling collection of old diskettes too... unfortunately didn't keep the CP/M and similar vintage disks, sacrificed when I moved.
When I was 10 I used 5 1/4 inch floppies at the school I went to, as well as 3 1/2 inch floppies and I don't remember what os they ran but I enjoyed playing the games it had
I cannot vouch for having a childhood with floppy diskettes, I was born in 2001. I can tell everyone here though that these were pretty fragile and unreliable pieces of storage medium. Even the drives themselves tend to kick the bucket early.
And yet many many years later I have both a pc from the early 2000’s with a fully working drive, that has been used a hell of a lot, and a bunch of floppy disks I’ve had and used for years, very “fragile and unreliable”
Nice slightly different style of video! I only have a few floppy discs (British spelling!) left at this point, which are also neon and the last ones I bought. Must have been in the early 2000s IIRC.
Beats my floppy disk collection...I've not got a quarter of that amount...but I do have the same game Doom 2 on 5 diskettes...and the original purchase receipt from Virgin megastore 12 Oct 1994 but no box...also have a drawer full of floppy drives (FDD)...some of them still read disks! My P3 Compaq has a branded drive with no faceplate to line up with the desktop front case...it's challenging to get other drives modified to fit in it...that doesn't stop me
Nice intro :) I forget all about Microsoft Scenes - I used to have them! The Doom II disks are very cool - do you have the box? I hope the Compaq disks you have been uploaded to archive.org? Love that you have SoftRAM, the software that did bugger all ;) I have a dream, that one day I will own an original set of Windows 95 floppy disks and install W95 from them :)
Michael did you ever have the Cmopaq Rack Builder diskettes? I used that software to see how to build rack servers and see how my configs would affect power requirements, UPS load as well as server functionality. I loved it.
Hey Michael, I just installed a Duke nukem theme on my windows 98 computer and can't figure out how to set it, do you have to have plus installed to use themes?
Michael: guys, i am running out on floppy disks Also Michael: i have ALOT of floppy disks! Great video, thought! I have a question, will you do a face reveal and if so, when will you do it?
I've never seen Microsoft floppy disks with those labels. All of the ones I own have the Microsoft logo in the top right and the software name down the left side of the label. Are the other labels older variations of the ones I have or are they later?
Actually, I was preparing for a Computer Architecture exam and came across this video in my playlist. If you don't mind, could I get one of these floppy disks? (I ordered online and got scammed ) I have a vast collection of software CDs all around my room, but adding a gangsta floppy to my collection would be great for me.
JESUS GEO WORKS... damn I have not heard anything about that in probably 30 years. and I'm only 36 My elementary school computer lab had Apple2's, DOS machines, and GEO FUCKING WORKS... I humbly request a video about Geo Works for the nostalgia trip.
Around 5:00 it was said that Windows 95 was 29 disks: Wasn't retail-version of Windows 95 21 disks? OEM versions had more disks: My PC from that era had Win95 pre-installed, but they didn't include a installation cd. They included this utility to make installation floppies + stickers for them. This utility needed 37 disks. That's 21 disks for OS and 16 disks for drivers and bloatware.
gotta love your video editing haha, pretty clever and well done but yea, you just followed the same path as every youtuber does nowadays, but who cares, i don't great video dude
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Hello please can you test windows 10 pro superlight compact (by ghost spectre) modification? I realy want to use it but i dont know if it has any viruses Thanks
I was wondering what happened that I wasn't getting any sort of notification from your videos, and I tried to turn on the bell in your channel but it says it's disabled for content made for kids. What's that about?
"Emergency Disk"
When you need to save a file but all your other disks are unavailable.
I can't believe they made the save icon into a real thing
And different versions of it.
@@moelester9902 As storage media.
"tHe sAVe iCoN wAs bAsED oN tHE fLoPPy dIsC nOT thE oTheR wAY" someone was going to say but I think I already stopped him
I smell an r/woosh
Those AOL floppies... I remember going around early in the morning to all the houses on my block, stealing the AOL floppies out of their newspapers.
LOL, a true menace!
Pretty sure that is a felony.
It's not every day where you hear someone say they have a lot of floppy disks in 2020.
Definitely true
I clicked on this vid because I have a lot of floppy disk.
@Dusk Raccoon I am 17 and I have 1.6k floppy disks in my collection. (3.5" 5.25" and 8")
Noah Beaudin remind me if this comment Gets Popular Thx
@@tieline1333 Show me.
2040: I have a lot of CDs
2060: I have a lot of USB Flash Drives
2080: ?
User 2080: I have a lot of SD cards (?) idk
2100: I have a lot of Hard Drives
9:01 Window is 95.
Window's 95 is possessive, I.E. I'm using Jeff's laptop. Window owns 95.
Suddenly I feel energized to re-explore my collection of hundreds of floppies.
25 years ago it was pretty hard to imagine life without floppy disks
I have one of those reflective AOL floppy disks from (it's hard to tell in the video but I believe) the same year, 1998, and it says version 3.0!
Nice collection. Have you created backups of these floppy disks? Just in case something gets lost, especially when all these are very low on size comparing to nowadays "storage size". It would be kind of time consuming (especially difficult with 5 1/4), but probably worth it, don't you think?
if you connect all of these at once, there would be enough space to open 1 tab in google chrome
Lol
loved that emphasis at 6:17
That ‘wear’ you’d seen on the 5 1/4” disks is pretty typical for adhesives that are this old, especially if they weren’t somewhere climate controlled. It’s funny to think that if they were made without the stickers and left to the user to apply they’d be in better shape.
"Don't copy that floppy!"
Literally same but with CDs. I have at least 3 100-disc spindles of burns, driver discs, games and software. It's funny how much more personal a CD is to someone. Most floppies have such small sizes, it's only really feasible for the essentials.
I really need more floppy disks but I have such a hard time finding them nowadays
@Svein Are Karlsen can't use an emulator on a sony mavica
I hope you imaged them all, just so you can re-write them after they go blank.
The first sign of creeping hoarderism; still has floppies. Like my unopened box of DSDD 5-1/4 inch floppies :-)
Customer: "i want me 3.11 windows"
Employee: "we cannot sell you .11 windows
Customer: "no windows 3.11"
Those office depot disks seem to be pretty reliable for me, I use a set of them for my mavica camera
While many people might think 25 floppy MS office install is just a showoff.
It's not it's very real back in the day I did this in 2010 when grandpa was trying to backup some proprietary bank documents from 1995 prior to his retirement.
That contained very specific encrypted content which otherwise could not be opened in consumer version of MS Office.
14:30 Let's hope those nice mold stains on the box are not indicative of the disks' condition.
I thought I was he only one... I recently started building sets of Windows and MS-DOS install diskettes and bought about 300. Dunno why I needed that many but why not. Now I have 8 floppy holders full sitting in my office holding all the bits.
As time goes on, they will become more and more collectible. A lot is being lost due to poor storage. Bit Rot and the medium disintegrating.
I have about this many, but I've thrown out this many because they just generally suck. Pro Tip: If the disk is rainbow colored or transparent, it's new enough to be absolutely terrible. Stick to the black and beige disks. Bonus points if they have metal sliders.
You should really organize them, maybe add some sticky note tabs that tell what's where
I have a floppy disk of Logitech drivers disk 2. I'm missing disk 1 though. It was for older keyboards and mice. I also have a full backup copy of Windows 98 SE. That came from the old Gateway tower my parents used to have but got rid of it :)
I used to use floppy disk as a pick up line. Unfortunately, they were always disappointed I was a 3.5 and not a 5.4. Dang
I do not miss installing things with floppies.
Knew someone who used GeOS to multitask on an XT, I shit you not. He'd be online with it while it printed invoices in the background and did other stuff too.
I have a fairly appalling collection of old diskettes too... unfortunately didn't keep the CP/M and similar vintage disks, sacrificed when I moved.
Wow Michel, you don’t even remember what you have in this massive collection!
When I was 10 I used 5 1/4 inch floppies at the school I went to, as well as 3 1/2 inch floppies and I don't remember what os they ran but I enjoyed playing the games it had
I think it was dos 6.22 and windows 3.11 but I'm not sure about it
It's been way too long since then
We had an old apple that had a 5.25 in drive in my 4th grade class. Naturally I was the only one that tried to use it
My school was way behind with education but these floppies are hard to find nowadays
I cannot vouch for having a childhood with floppy diskettes, I was born in 2001. I can tell everyone here though that these were pretty fragile and unreliable pieces of storage medium. Even the drives themselves tend to kick the bucket early.
And yet many many years later I have both a pc from the early 2000’s with a fully working drive, that has been used a hell of a lot, and a bunch of floppy disks I’ve had and used for years, very “fragile and unreliable”
got my old floppy collection beat 5 times over!!!
Nice slightly different style of video! I only have a few floppy discs (British spelling!) left at this point, which are also neon and the last ones I bought. Must have been in the early 2000s IIRC.
Yes, MajorSky17!
That’s a lot of floppies no joke! I’ve never seen so many disks in one place
Aaaah...nostalgia......"Don't copy that floppy" ;-)
Those Doom floppy disks. I remember using hacha to share some copies with my school friends.
I too still have a whole bunch of floppy disks on one of my shelves.
My main computer still has an old floppy drive in it, sadly it hasn't worked in years :(
Beats my floppy disk collection...I've not got a quarter of that amount...but I do have the same game Doom 2 on 5 diskettes...and the original purchase receipt from Virgin megastore 12 Oct 1994 but no box...also have a drawer full of floppy drives (FDD)...some of them still read disks! My P3 Compaq has a branded drive with no faceplate to line up with the desktop front case...it's challenging to get other drives modified to fit in it...that doesn't stop me
Nice intro :) I forget all about Microsoft Scenes - I used to have them! The Doom II disks are very cool - do you have the box? I hope the Compaq disks you have been uploaded to archive.org? Love that you have SoftRAM, the software that did bugger all ;) I have a dream, that one day I will own an original set of Windows 95 floppy disks and install W95 from them :)
Floppy is a must if you want to be a retro enthusiast
I remember those smaller box for floppy disk!!!! Like this red one!!
The 8-Bit Guy has a Compaq Portable. You could probably ask him that you can use it for those floppy disks.
Michael did you ever have the Cmopaq Rack Builder diskettes? I used that software to see how to build rack servers and see how my configs would affect power requirements, UPS load as well as server functionality. I loved it.
Hey Michael, I just installed a Duke nukem theme on my windows 98 computer and can't figure out how to set it, do you have to have plus installed to use themes?
Michael: guys, i am running out on floppy disks
Also Michael: i have ALOT of floppy disks!
Great video, thought! I have a question, will you do a face reveal and if so, when will you do it?
F A C E R E V E A L
@@b3njam1nd0ver on what video?
is there any way to get a full set of windows 3.1 floppy disks ?
Do you know of a way to get data off of diskettes that are formatted for old computers? I've had no luck.
Oh wow, used to like Blake Stone. Unfortunately, my copy got lost awhile back.
I've never seen Microsoft floppy disks with those labels. All of the ones I own have the Microsoft logo in the top right and the software name down the left side of the label. Are the other labels older variations of the ones I have or are they later?
Actually, I was preparing for a Computer Architecture exam and came across this video in my playlist. If you don't mind, could I get one of these floppy disks? (I ordered online and got scammed ) I have a vast collection of software CDs all around my room, but adding a gangsta floppy to my collection would be great for me.
I have 53 floppy disks and it's way to much for todays standards
JESUS GEO WORKS... damn I have not heard anything about that in probably 30 years. and I'm only 36 My elementary school computer lab had Apple2's, DOS machines, and GEO FUCKING WORKS... I humbly request a video about Geo Works for the nostalgia trip.
Awesome video, Michael!
Thanks!
Dang, that's a lot of floppy disks.
the first 10 sec felt like watching howtobasic man lmao
I thought that I had a lot of floppy disks but you have me beat
i have a lot too just not as many as you do. I have a whole drawer of them. most of them are smith corona ones.
I'm the same way with DVDs , well over a thousand
Well done. A lot of cool history's.
Thanks!
maybe you could attempt to install the 5 1/2 inch IBM disks and rewrite the label?? id like to see whats actually on them :0
Around 5:00 it was said that Windows 95 was 29 disks: Wasn't retail-version of Windows 95 21 disks? OEM versions had more disks: My PC from that era had Win95 pre-installed, but they didn't include a installation cd. They included this utility to make installation floppies + stickers for them. This utility needed 37 disks. That's 21 disks for OS and 16 disks for drivers and bloatware.
Great Video Michael
I heard that Windows 95 was released on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks. I wonder if you would be able to find that. I haven't seen it anywhere.
gotta love your video editing haha, pretty clever and well done
but yea, you just followed the same path as every youtuber does nowadays, but who cares, i don't
great video dude
9:06 Ah yes, Window's 95.
Do a floppy disk 💾 giveaway cos I’d love to have one but I don’t have any
TEch WIse 2203 get one from a landfill, they are full of them
i cant because of quarintine
I have 50 floppies
Never heard you talk like that.
I kind of enjoy this
The primary focus on my TH-cam channel is on LINUX and yet I'm subscribed to this channel.. So you must be doing SOMETHING right! ☺️👍 Really cool detailed videos on different Microsoft Operating System versions.. And on Microsoft products.. 😀👍 Yeah great content!
so. many. floppies.
I want dem all.
I would like to see a video on old Office suites. Not just Microsoft's
It’s been around 2 minutes since this video was uploaded and there’s already a dislike. Why.
people who remembered what Floppy Disks did to them, I don't hate Floppy Disks but they can't keep shit on them for longer then a week
Haters?, unhappy people? Who knows!!
cuz he hasnt done a face reveal yet?
I would directly buy an original copy of Windows 3.11 if I would get the chance.
I only have 5 floppy disks in my collection. 2 of those are 5 3/4 inches.
Hello please can you test windows 10 pro superlight compact (by ghost spectre) modification? I realy want to use it but i dont know if it has any viruses
Thanks
Dope Collection :) Only one bad program in the stack, SoftRam is fake if you want the real thing get Connectix Ram double ;)
Cool Michael :)
"Window's 95 'CD'-setup boot disk ver 2.0"
I hope you'll reach 100k by the end of the year :)
Floppy disks are awsome.
I got floppies too but my Is corrupted Windows 95 os disk And some Office software
i have counted the floppy disks and Michael has over 239 floppy disks!!
Cd or Dvd collection?
Do another massive floppy install video.
9:00 Yes. That was from the Indiana University Windows 98 video if I remember correctly.
Flexing at its max
Do more Macintosh related videos!
That's what revisiting past means!
Nice. I want a floppy disk in my life :(
Can you make a video about the Windows 10 Development?
Sportster Winmodem.
They had a lot off creative names back then.
I was wondering what happened that I wasn't getting any sort of notification from your videos, and I tried to turn on the bell in your channel but it says it's disabled for content made for kids. What's that about?
I feel very fortunate to be in the first views of this video cause I'm sure it will suddenly pop up in everyone's recommendations
Im only 17 years old and have no floppy disc near :( But i really enjoy your vids!!
hope to see GEOS video soon , :)
there is a version of windows 98 on 3.5" floppy
install ms dos, then windows 3.1 and doom
Came from soft ram and stayed for the floppys
2.0MB floppy? I still have my first 5.25" floppy with first dBase program I wrote