About eight years back, when I wanted to install a floppy drive in my computer, Marco told me it wasn’t worth the effort. I insisted. Marco relented. Well, mostly. He put it in—but upside down. I noticed a few years later, when I finally had an excuse to use it. Of course, I mentioned it—just to gloat.
“See? I knew it would be useful. By the way, did you know it was upside down?”
“You just noticed that?”
Okay. So maybe it wasn’t that useful. … Excluding showing off to your grandchildren, when is the last time you used a floppy disk?
Just two years ago, in college. We were writing assembly code for this fine piece of hardware, and that particular computer lab happened to be possibly the only place on campus without internet access.
I keep telling myself I’ll buy a USB floppy reader some day, so I can look through all my old files from my DOS days… but I just keep getting distracted by the multi-megabyte wonders of the internet.
