You could boot an old pc from floppy like what later would be called a live CD. Though you were constantly switching disks. Like if you ever played Monkey Island on 5.25” floppies.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I believe it's a practical joke and there isn't actually anything important on that drive.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you akshually’ing my akshually post?

[–] sip@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think he was letting you know you r/whoosh ed

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What is 'r/'?

[–] sip@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

lemmy

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 1 points 3 days ago

Why, there is no r in lemmy

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Not anymore!

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

Plot twist: it's a NORAD system recovery diskette.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Older PCs couldn't always boot from CD. In those cases, you needed a boot disk. It had just enough OS to get the cd drive working and allow for a full install. They also allowed for basic repair or maintenance tasks e.g. resizing the windows partition.

Veterans kept a couple about at home. Nothing like the catch 22. "I need a boot disk to fix my PC/I need my PC to make a boot disk."

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

When the OS is DOS you can easily fit the entire thing on a floppy.

Mac OS system 6 too, I think.

[–] brygphilomena@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago

A lot of terraform and docker compose files could fit on a floppy still.

Actually, that might be a fun thing to play with. It might not have data. But you could back up a good amount of config and deployment information and have a system to restore data to.

[–] LOLseas@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, there's a- Monkey in my pocket! And he's stealing all my change! His stare is blank and glassy I suspect he's deraaaaaanged!

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

LOL! Finding this song in the wild made my week. Thanks for that. XD

Monkey Island is such a treasure:

"You just don't know when to quit, do you?!"

"Apparently neither did your barber."

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

You used to be able to get a whole-ass router that fit on 1.2MB in the late 90's.

Novell SPX routers also ran from a single floppy

Before bios supported bootable cd's you needed them to get the windows 95 install started.

That said, this was an obvious joke image :)