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jedixjarf — Jul 20th 2010 1:53PM

OMG I WANT 1

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Dsi2play — Jul 20th 2010 1:54PM

so the spill cant fall on top of the floppy drive?

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ark_v2 — Jul 20th 2010 3:35PM

@Dsi2play

Then it will just jump and roll-over

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Ben — Jul 20th 2010 1:54PM

That is pretty awesome. From now on everything should have legs like that.

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Blacked Out [XBL: Biacked_Out] — Jul 20th 2010 2:12PM

Lol, I was going to put some type of innuendo concerning your girlfriend, legs springing out and fluid but I decided not to.

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Psyclotr0n — Jul 20th 2010 3:44PM

@BlackedOut
well of course blow up dolls have flexible legs. durrr.

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Justin — Jul 20th 2010 1:54PM

Next up, optical disc drive legs!

I suspect it'll need quite a bit more R&D...

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Blythy — Jul 20th 2010 1:55PM

Ooooh 5 1/4 inch, reminds me of the good old BBC Micro.

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GettoLoser — Jul 20th 2010 1:55PM

Baller~

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rmbrown09 — Jul 20th 2010 1:56PM

I miss floppy drives.......
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felt legit bringing my typed homework to school in like 3rd grade, everyone else wrote theirs, hah!

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Ryan — Jul 20th 2010 1:57PM

how whimsical and useless!

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rmbrown09 — Jul 20th 2010 1:57PM

could we get this in a laptop?

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Kizorblade — Jul 20th 2010 1:58PM

Floppy drives haven't got a leg to stand on.

Except this one.

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dswatson83 — Jul 20th 2010 1:58PM

I had my hopes on the zip drive...could never figure out why no one liked them. Tons of space, easy to add data, and hardly larger than a floppy. It was really tough too add data to cd's when they first came out. No drag and drop

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CurGeorge8 — Jul 20th 2010 2:31PM

@dswatson83 *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click*

Shit.

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willow_twf — Jul 20th 2010 2:41PM

@CurGeorge8
reliability and price = zip drive fail. at university we could buy 1 zip disk for $10 or approximately 40 CDs for the same price. zip discs would fail left and right, but the CDs were so cheap (and reliable) that you used them and then watched them create lightning storms in the microwave before tossing them out.

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CurGeorge8 — Jul 20th 2010 2:49PM

@willowtwf
This is true, I can will admit to using the Click of Death to get myself out of missing assignment deadlines. Most of my prof's required us to turn in projects on a zip disk. So I would keep one or two dead disks around, and if I was ever late on an assignment, I would just turn in a dead disk.

This would always buy me 2-3 more days, and sometimes an apology from my professor. Brilliant.

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InspectorEngadget — Jul 20th 2010 2:58PM

@CurGeorge8 That is devious.

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mbentley — Jul 20th 2010 4:14PM

@dswatson83

Did Iomega allow 3rd party hardware manufacturers to sell drives? From my recollection, I can't remember a ZIP drive not manufactured by Iomega. If it is indeed true that they didn't license the technology to other companies, that could explain a lot. Same reason why MiniDiscs never caught on.

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jason — Jul 20th 2010 5:37PM

@dswatson83

I had many Zip discs. Too many. Even in that era 100MB was too small. I went on to use a Jaz drive instead. Now I use hard drives, they are just as removeable as anything else and way faster.

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Zac — Jul 20th 2010 5:46PM

@dswatson83

I don't know about you guys, but I am still storing my info on cassette tapes.

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bhtooefr — Jul 27th 2010 1:38PM

@CurGeorge8 That's actually quite evil - a clicking Zip disk usually ripped the heads out of the Zip drive... and with the heads ripped out, they usually caught on the media, ripping it, causing it to grab the heads in the next Zip drive.

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CooterLightman — Jul 20th 2010 1:58PM

way to support a dead art

just kidding, i still love ZIP drives and 8 tracks...and I just saved a few docs to my floppy the other day

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Fordy — Jul 20th 2010 3:30PM

@CooterLightman
I'm with you 100%.

I fail to see why people discount old technology as soon as its old.

Just because there's something new, doesn't mean the new thing is always the most appropriate.

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mannyengadget — Jul 20th 2010 4:34PM

@FORDY
What is next for you guys ? A fax machine?

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sviola — Jul 20th 2010 4:36PM

@FORDY

Well, in the case of the floppy and zip disks, they really are no match to pen drives in terms of size, capacity and performance.

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VagaStorm — Jul 20th 2010 7:34PM

@mannyengadget i have å fax at mørk, I nede it før domain name registration :(

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shishi — Jul 20th 2010 2:02PM

WANT.

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Fizzy — Jul 20th 2010 2:02PM

I still use floppys ...Still own 3 Sony Mavica Cameras...One of the most dependable ( yet Giant) digital cameras i have owned. Anyone else have one of these beasts?

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Fizzy — Jul 20th 2010 2:04PM

@Fizzy This would greatly accompany all those floppys

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nefnet13 — Jul 20th 2010 2:23PM

@Fizzy Mavica! I gave my old one (1.3 mp woohoo) to my 8 year-old daughter and she loves it. I have like 6 floppies full of pics she has been taking with it.

And if she can't destroy it, no one can!

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bj55555 — Jul 20th 2010 2:04PM

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bj55555 — Jul 20th 2010 2:08PM

@bj55555

Can't include angle brackets in a post? Seriously, Engadget?

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tobsmonster2 — Jul 20th 2010 3:40PM

@bj55555
Whole heap of fail up there ^^^

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James — Jul 20th 2010 3:53PM

@bj55555

Sure you can. You just need to know the .

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BorisBorf — Jul 20th 2010 2:04PM

OMG... Can't wait for Zip drive with legs!

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rmbrown09 — Jul 20th 2010 2:05PM

Not that I like the evo that much, but it has a kickstand that could...if you spilled.....just sayin

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bj55555 — Jul 20th 2010 2:06PM

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DS1495 — Jul 20th 2010 4:25PM

@bj55555

Aha, so true.

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Elduderino2412 — Jul 20th 2010 2:07PM

This is just the first step in the a series of many to kill John Connor.

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Blake — Jul 20th 2010 2:08PM

Did this come from some sort of bizzaro universe where they still use floppy drives?

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CurGeorge8 — Jul 20th 2010 2:34PM

@helmsb In Communist Russia, floppy drive use you.

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tobsmonster2 — Jul 20th 2010 3:40PM

@CurGeorge8
Fail.

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nullifie — Jul 20th 2010 2:12PM

It should also make insect like sounds. That would be so win.

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huh — Jul 20th 2010 2:14PM

I'm still looking for a wireless floppy drive. 8" preferably.

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Aki — Jul 20th 2010 8:35PM

@huh My old Apple II disc drives would make all sorts of buzzing sounds, maybe you could coax this one to do that =)

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julschau — Jul 20th 2010 2:22PM

it's just a floppy drive, they don't do much

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Psyclotr0n — Jul 20th 2010 2:30PM

@jul
yeah they do, they play fucking floppy disks

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DDVX — Jul 21st 2010 4:15PM

@Psyclotr0n

I couldn't help it. I burst out laughing.

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quiik4u — Jul 20th 2010 2:23PM

Serious? When I saw this,I thought it was an addition to the Computer Museum along with Mac Classic II and MacPaint!