I still use mine! But yes, they are a pain if you want to save anything like photos. I should really get a USB stick or something - but it seems such a waste… I wonder if I can make one out of old household waste? ;-)

SaraR

Don’t junk them, combine them = http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm

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I agree with the raid array idea, but that many individual floppy drives is expensive and bulky. On the up-side, the elements in your array are hot-swappable, so every 3 or 4 days when you have a drive fail, you can simply eject the media and replace it with a new one. ;-)

I vote build them into a giant pyramid and sell them on ebay. Either that or some kind of decorative wall hanging.

coasters?

You can turn 5 and 8-inchers into all sorts of useful stuff. The 3.5s? Hmm… All I ever did with them is make little Enterprises and Birds of Prey. I bet those pages are still around the internets.

Make starships: http://www.asciipr0n.com/archive/0013/bonnie/craft/ :-)

How about making plate armour…? sure won’t stop bullets, but it’ll slow ‘em down..

I now use both a USB drive and floppy disks. Of course, with the coming of the USB drive, usage of floppy disks is much more infrequent. However, floppy disks are interesting to use, because they are still mechanic, unlike all-electronic devices that give no sound even on errors. I sometimes use floppy disks to copy small files, or use them to store short notes that I make at home and do at work.

Why cant the head of the drive become small enough to add tracks to the surface of the disk, surely we could fit more on them!

I think if you take a drill to the corner of the 720 disk you can easily format to 1.44MiB, and there’s programs out there to use the 20% thats there for bad sectors, so i’ve put 1.9MiB on a 1.44 in the past, and 1MiB on a 720 :)

I’ve got several hundred stored in a box in the garage. I cannot throw them away - they were part of my life for so many years - but who wants them now..?? :O(

i’ve been wondering about this too… i sometimes use a couple as wedges to balance chairs and things like that, but i’ve still got a few hundred left over.

Sell them on Ebay…

People still buy them??!

-louisa

I saw somewhere a bird feeder made from floppy discs. I don’t have any floppies anymore so I didn’t take note of the address. Perhaps a google would throw some light on it?

I tried googling but didn’t come up with anything - but I *did* find a link showing you how to make a square desk-tidy out of five old discs. (link)

As well as using it for pens, you could use it for holding scrap paper torn up into squares for using instead of post-its.

-louisa

Got a Shotgun? Try SkeetShooting” Instead if using Clay birds,Use Floppy Disks and old AOL CDs and have a “Blast”.

Is it Possible to record music on them as Singles as like the old 45RPM records? If so,how can this be done? I dont have a CD burner on this thing,so I got to use what I’ve got,a Heck of alot of Floppy dics.Please Help

Give them to someone that will use them. There are many african countries that recieve used PCs, why not send them floppies too ?

Look at this
http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=1371

make a purse out of them…
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/12/floppy_disk_purse.html

If you have DD ie double density floppies you could ebay them as amiga computers used to use them alot. The retro/amiga scene is growing but theres a lack of DD flopies!

Hd floppies i dont know

i stuck min to the wall and use it a as a notice board just tuck noti under the metal bit ps it looks dame cool

The only thing I can think of is taking them apart (gently), then you can dispose of plastic and metal seperately. I throw the inner part with the data in the general waste.

The rigid case of 3.5inch floppies is polystyrene (at least the ones I have are).

Does anyone know of a processer who takes PS on a non-industrial scale?

Does anyone know if there is any recycling company that recycles Floppy diskettes??

currently i m doing my final year project on recycling and reduction of diskettes.. but i cant find any good web that shows company recycles them….

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If you have a camera that is sensitive to infra-red, you can use them to make a lens cap for IR photos. (exposed film is also good).

http://www.pc-recycling.com/ Do recycle them for the public! there is a charge but at least they are recycled! :)

Glue them together in a stack and use them as a paperweight. I’ve also seen people make notepads out of them. The paper inside the notepads was cut from the back of used envelopes. The front and back of the notepad were floppy disks. To attach them, use a drill or Dremmel to drill a hole through the upper left corner of the disks and pages inside, then attach them together with a round metal keychain ring.

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Old floppy discs and VCR tapes can be donated. Check out actrecycling.org!

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If you still have a lot of them I would be very grateful if you could send them to me as I make jewellery out of them. It’s a waste to buy new ones as everyone is throwing their old ones away..

An

If you still want old floppy discs please email your address to jgkirby@hotmail.com and I will send you some

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Give me your address and I’ll send som floppy disks to you. My email anabela_araujo@hotmail.com

I had a surprize party for my husband when he turned the big 50. We used Lp’s but you could use disc”as well.
Who ever the birthday person favourite music artist is ,eg Elvis,print out small pictures of Elvis to cover the centre leaving some black edge of the disc.Glue to the centre of the disc and have then around the walls, Table or where ever. Or you can print the birthday invitation and glue onto one side, covering the whole disc.This was a novel idea , instead of the same old invitations,but we glued a magnet on the back so people would know there was nothing recorded on them to listen to and they put them on their fridge and they could be reminded of the party every time they went to the fridge