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I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 9 months ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/retrocomputing

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It didn't work though. He wasn't able to actually store any useful data on it.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 5 points 9 months ago

There at the end he revealed the point of the exercise; it wasn’t to have a functioning disk, but to push one’s individual skill boundaries and learn new ways to solve problems. If the disk worked at the end then it would be a double benefit, but that wasn’t the point.

It’s a lot like learning to fly or sail a boat. Are there more economical means of travel? Absolutely. But in doing these things we gain new tools to solve adjacent problems.

Do I have a need to finely and evenly spread a magnetic slurry? Nope. But the wire-wrapped rod may very well help me out in the future!