Hello OzBargainers,
Let's take a ride back to the 90's with these awesome Floppy Disk drink coasters!
My fondest memory was installing Bird Vs Jordan off a floppy - man that game was great!
What better way than to remind yourself of simpler times than with these novelty coasters priced at ONLY $1.85!
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Woah, a 3D printed save icon, how'd you know how thick it is? :-P
Isn't it cheaper to just use some old actual floppy risks as coasters then?
I threw a few hundred 3.5" disks in the bin a while ago, should've sold them for $1.85 each lol
All that old 90's stuff is worth a lot now. I made the same mistake ditching some old clothes and other bits and pieces of junk earlier this year and afterwards found that teens are paying a fortune for that "retro" crap now even when it's trash.
i have a couple of 50 spindles of CD "coasters" i'm willing to part with for $1.85 per disc inc shipping.
We have a friend who puts them on the fruit trees to scare away the birds. The shiny stuff reflects,
I WANT THESE. shipping kills them :(
How the hell do they make a profit at this price? I was 3d printing these things for friends a few months ago and it was costing 40c of plastic ea.
Wing Commander II
Why not buy ACTUAL floppy disks?
They're slippery and may scratch
I’ve had these for a couple of years they’re great!
OP, Have you considered posting these as a large letter (20mm thickness) for $2.20? No need for tracking on such a low value item.
I'm sure this seller is shipping them as a large letter….
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/4x-Silicone-Floppy-Coaster-Offic…
Umm, floppy discs look like this. These coasters clearly depict hard disks.
(Based on what I learned from every tech illiterate person in the 80s/90s).
They are both floppies just different sizes. The larger ones were older.
This is the modern floppies. That pic is the older version.
They're both floppies. Those are 5¼" and these are 3½".
Floppy refers to the internal magnetic disk. Both have internal floppy disks, one has a soft case and one has a hard case.
(Based on what I learned from every tech illiterate person in the 80s/90s).
I think everyone missed this detail.
They did indeed :) Was alluding to a common misconception back in the day, and thought I made that pretty obvious, so the 'corrections' were a bit unexpected and funny.
Those are called stiffy discs
Let’s not forget:
Jungle hunt
J bird
Golden axe
Gauntlet 2 (many hours of 4 kids on a keyboard)
Ironman super off-road
All Sierra games
And the greatest game of all time - another world (out of this world) flash back was good too
Please insert disc 2
Damn.
I still remember copying p0rn on the discs.
It used to take AGES to load the image into MS Paint.
And the worst thing, if floppy gets corrupt, MS Paint couldn't load the juicy parts of the image.
Damn.
And yes, I remember a fun incident.. once upon a time, I had two floppies. One had nudes of Kate Winslet and the other one had my C assignment. A classmate asked if she can copy my assignment. Gave her the wrong disc. Came back to me room, prepped for a fantastic fap session. Inserted the floppy only to find the damn C files. Took off. Found the girl. Got back the treasure. Happy fap.
Damn.
The Faptastic Misadventures of Choopachups
Damn.
Should have let her watch it, she may have saved you a fap.
Should have inserted his 3½" floppy
"watch"? What kind of compression do you think the 80s-90s had?
Seem to recall a "videos of beautiful women in bikinis" floppy listed among the shareware disks catalog that came with APC mag. Always wondered what was on it - must have been something like 240x180 resolution with a length of 30 seconds.
Although at the age I was then, it probably would have been sufficient in both respects.
"mspaint me like one of your French girls."
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he didnt ascii you to paint here
Sadly my imagination ain't what it used to be……nor does it need to luckily…..
heavy breathing intensifies
I've used actually floppy disks as coasters before, but they're not good for cold drinks as they don't absorb condensation and you drip all over the table you're trying to protect.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Retro-Style-Floppy-Disk-Silicone…
Same thing here with free postage so total is 15c more, not really a deal if youre buying this on its own due to shipping.
Damn this really aint a deal then, shipping kills it.
For people wanting more than 1 pack it's cheaper to go with smooth sales.
Are these any good for playing frisbee?
The $2 Blitz in Frankston Vic has these if anyone is local to there.
AOL CDs used to be popular for coasters, as they gave away so many free ones.
Was that a thing in Australia?
Yeah I had a stack of AOL & NetZero CDs. Ubuntu also used to have a form where you could get CD versions of it mailed to you for free so I just requested 20 copies and used them for decoration/coasters too.
I had Ozemail and Onetel.
Think we rotated between free 1st month trials.
Anybody remember Freenet and Globalfreeway?
I remember in 97 a mate of mine gave me two floppy disks with "All My Life" kci and jojo on them and told me to extract it together using win rar and couldn't for the life of me work out what to do.
I dunno. My drink coasters are old CDs and HDD platters.
Thanks ozbargainers. Enjoyed reading the comments for a trip down memory lane…
you were not techo enough if you didnt use the disk expander program that claim to double your floppy disk size .. i was the envy of the class showing off my 1.44mb floppy with 2.88mb total disk space
I was going to buy 20 for our IT department for Christmas. Too much for postage :(
do they come preloaded with Imperial March??? :3
I have painfully throw away over 200 of these disks a few months ago.
Interesting way to get people details even if they bow out after seeing postage costs.
Age old gripe with checkouts. When I run into one that doesn't let me see postage and payment methods prior to entering my details, I either create a throwaway account or try a different store. Single-page checkouts FTW!
Well, the title and description do have the postage amount in it so not really hiding it.
FYI, that is how Shopify stores are set up and it is really difficult to change (if at all).
We are, however, working on launching a new website in the coming months where we can fix this problem.
fark..I remember these…especially when trying to load 20 disks game, waited 30 mins only to find out one of the disks was corrupted
TRIGGERED!!!
I found two locked up that was labeled “MANDY” and “MORE MANDY”
It’s what you think it was.
https://www.jumpjet.info/Offbeat-Internet/More/ASCII/ascii.h…
Archive.org has the GL files that you can open in dos box, and view in a browser … but its definitely NSFW.
it was a MSDOS compressed video file in a format called called GRASP with GL script files that mixed CGA/EGA dithered video with PC speaker audio that would fit onto a 1.2mb floppy disk.
There were Demo scene animations from the 90s, but this was 20-50 frames of video and audio with no hardware support needed.
Essentially, it was a video GIF from ~1988 before they had EGA and VGA colour monitors, along with a BBS advertisement.
It also predated a lot of the Amiga graphics and PC games like Wing Commander / Secret of Monkey Island that had a lot of dithering for people who couldn’t afford VGA or EGA displays, sic.
When are you getting more stock in? Free delivery next time?
yes mate… they're going to 'sell' it for a couple of bucks and throw in free delivery (i.e make a LOSS) for a bunch of tightarse ozb'ers who are most likely never to buy anything from them again. Might as well shut shop and get on the dole.
Just bought 10 packs so postage was worth it. Hand out to my friends who will enjoy the novelty and remember the pain we all went through installing Windows NT from floppies.