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Title: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 07 August 2016, 12:54:39
It just seems like,,  well if you've named something Harddrive,  you should've named something Softdrive..

I mean, if volatility is the underpinning,  then they should've name Ram the Softdrive.. (http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/ahaaah-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862489)
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: user 18 on Sun, 07 August 2016, 13:18:49
It just seems like,,  well if you've named something Harddrive,  you should've named something Softdrive..

I mean, if volatility is the underpinning,  then they should've name Ram the Softdrive..
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Is "floppy drive" (or floppy disk, I suppose) the word you're searching for?
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 07 August 2016, 15:17:32
floppy is hard though.
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: jdcarpe on Sun, 07 August 2016, 15:25:42
floppy is hard though.

Not these:

(http://i.imgur.com/534PF2p.jpg)
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: tjcaustin on Sun, 07 August 2016, 15:33:34
floppy is hard though.

Why tp4 is single in 4 words.
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: chyros on Sun, 07 August 2016, 15:41:19
The trick is to turn your software into hardware, naturally. Similarly your soft drive into a hard drive.
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 07 August 2016, 15:50:25
floppy is hard though.

Why tp4 is single in 4 words.

Tj made it dirty..

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Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: chyros on Sun, 07 August 2016, 15:54:08
floppy is hard though.

Why tp4 is single in 4 words.
I laughed. Loudly  :)) .
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: user 18 on Sun, 07 August 2016, 16:32:53
floppy is hard though.

The data storage medium in a floppy disk is a flexible (floppy) magnetic disk. The data storage medium in a hard disk is a rigid (hard) magnetic disk.


floppy is hard though.

Why tp4 is single in 4 words.

They have pills for this now, you know
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: mrbishop on Sun, 07 August 2016, 19:53:51
well "hard" drive refers to hardware and Soft drive would refer to software and since you dont really store data in software thats probably why its not a thing.

of if you want to make it dirty... reasons.
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 08 August 2016, 06:00:48
A "hard drive" is only hard in comparison to a floppy drive.

A so-called hard drive can be bent and folded too.  I just tried it on a platter on my desk I'm using as a coaster.  Now I have a bent coaster.
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: chyros on Mon, 08 August 2016, 07:26:11
A "hard drive" is only hard in comparison to a floppy drive.

A so-called hard drive can be bent and folded too.  I just tried it on a platter on my desk I'm using as a coaster.  Now I have a bent coaster.
Floppy drives aren't, and never were, floppy, though :p .

In fact, I have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive on my desk at home. It's massive, and most of it is cast out of a single piece of metal Oo .
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: xtrafrood on Mon, 08 August 2016, 07:57:41
print all the data of the HDD onto paper. Bind the paper with spiral binding. SDD. You're welcome
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: jdcarpe on Mon, 08 August 2016, 09:28:57
print all the data of the HDD onto paper. Bind the paper with spiral binding. SDD. You're welcome

But that would be 'hard copy' then, right?  ;D
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: xtrafrood on Mon, 08 August 2016, 09:41:50
print all the data of the HDD onto paper. Bind the paper with spiral binding. SDD. You're welcome

But that would be 'hard copy' then, right?  ;D

 :))
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: mrhead on Mon, 08 August 2016, 10:10:50
A "hard drive" is only hard in comparison to a floppy drive.

A so-called hard drive can be bent and folded too.  I just tried it on a platter on my desk I'm using as a coaster.  Now I have a bent coaster.
Floppy drives aren't, and never were, floppy, though :p .

In fact, I have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive on my desk at home. It's massive, and most of it is cast out of a single piece of metal Oo .

I distinctly remember the 5 1/4" floppies from our C64 being flexible.  Especially when you insert it before the head has moved out of the way.
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: chyros on Mon, 08 August 2016, 10:53:24
A "hard drive" is only hard in comparison to a floppy drive.

A so-called hard drive can be bent and folded too.  I just tried it on a platter on my desk I'm using as a coaster.  Now I have a bent coaster.
Floppy drives aren't, and never were, floppy, though :p .

In fact, I have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive on my desk at home. It's massive, and most of it is cast out of a single piece of metal Oo .

I distinctly remember the 5 1/4" floppies from our C64 being flexible.  Especially when you insert it before the head has moved out of the way.
Yes, the floppies themselves were floppy, hence the term "floppy disk" :p . The drives are ****ing anvils though XD .
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: mrbishop on Mon, 08 August 2016, 11:12:16
i'm just going to say this

tp gonna tp
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 09 August 2016, 05:41:00
A "hard drive" is only hard in comparison to a floppy drive.

A so-called hard drive can be bent and folded too.  I just tried it on a platter on my desk I'm using as a coaster.  Now I have a bent coaster.
Floppy drives aren't, and never were, floppy, though :p .

In fact, I have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive on my desk at home. It's massive, and most of it is cast out of a single piece of metal Oo .

Yes, if you want to get technical.  It was actually a "floppy disk drive", the adjective applying to the disk, not the drive.

The disks were definitely floppy, especially the 8" ones.  The 5.25" were the same construction, but seemed more solid as there was less surface area to flex.  3.5" floppies did not, in their entirety, bend much due to the rigid plastic case.  But the magnetic disk inside was very floppy.
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: chyros on Tue, 09 August 2016, 06:31:27
A "hard drive" is only hard in comparison to a floppy drive.

A so-called hard drive can be bent and folded too.  I just tried it on a platter on my desk I'm using as a coaster.  Now I have a bent coaster.
Floppy drives aren't, and never were, floppy, though :p .

In fact, I have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive on my desk at home. It's massive, and most of it is cast out of a single piece of metal Oo .

Yes, if you want to get technical.  It was actually a "floppy disk drive", the adjective applying to the disk, not the drive.

The disks were definitely floppy, especially the 8" ones.  The 5.25" were the same construction, but seemed more solid as there was less surface area to flex.  3.5" floppies did not, in their entirety, bend much due to the rigid plastic case.  But the magnetic disk inside was very floppy.
Haha the 8" ones are too old even for me xD . I know of them, but even the PC I had in the late 80s had 5 1/4" disks :D . I still run into them at the recycling centre from time to time! But never an 8" one (yet).
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: FrostyToast on Tue, 09 August 2016, 07:25:40
Floppy disks are named what they are because the disk itself inside its plastic housing is flexible.
Most people just see the case and question why the floppy disk has the name it does, but they don't know what's on the inside.
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 09 August 2016, 15:04:07
Floppy disks are named what they are because the disk itself inside its plastic housing is flexible.
Most people just see the case and question why the floppy disk has the name it does, but they don't know what's on the inside.

And it's what's on the inside that counts :)
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: xtrafrood on Tue, 09 August 2016, 17:01:43
Floppy disks are named what they are because the disk itself inside its plastic housing is flexible.
Most people just see the case and question why the floppy disk has the name it does, but they don't know what's on the inside.

And it's what's on the inside that counts :)

I ripped open a few 3.5in floppies when I was younger and more destructive--can confirm :D
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: chyros on Tue, 09 August 2016, 19:32:29
I found a 5 1/4 inch one with DOS on it a while ago at the recycling centre - oh, the memories! :D
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: xtrafrood on Tue, 09 August 2016, 19:35:31
I found a 5 1/4 inch one with DOS on it a while ago at the recycling centre - oh, the memories! :D

I paid a visit to my local recycling center a few days ago to find lots of CRT TV/Monitors and a few HP port replicators. Not even the kind of replicators with HDDs :-[
Title: Re: How come there's no Soft Drive..
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 09 August 2016, 21:55:43
Floppy disks are named what they are because the disk itself inside its plastic housing is flexible.
Most people just see the case and question why the floppy disk has the name it does, but they don't know what's on the inside.

And it's what's on the inside that counts :)

I ripped open a few 3.5in floppies when I was younger and more destructive--can confirm :D

I has a bunch of DDS tapes used for backups long ago.

All my DDS drives died years ago (maybe around 10 years ago), and the tapes have been sitting there unused since then.

So I had a cleanout and opened them all up and despooled all the tape, then cut it into random chunks.

Tape everywhere :))