Reply to post: Re: Too bad smartphones didn't exist then

Yes, there's nothing quite like braving the M4 into London on the eve of a bank holiday just to eject a non-bootable floppy

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Re: Too bad smartphones didn't exist then

"He could ask for them to send a quick video of them pushing the floppy eject button"

Haha. In the era where this failure mode was the most common, "making a video" involved a camcorder. "Sending a video" meant taking the VHS tape out of said camcorder, putting it in a box, and shipping said box to someone.

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