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+title: "Floppies"
+date: 2024-04-25T21:21:30+02:00
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+![Floppy Reader](/images/floppies/pic1.jpg) Floppy reader positioned on my 2
+year old custom-built PC. What an occurrence! The old meets the new hahah
+
+A youngster like me could hardly appreciate the simplicity behind these things,
+let alone the struggle elders had to go through to work with such technology. I
+was searching for a male aux to male aux connector the other day and stumbled
+on this reader with a stack of floppies nearby. The mounting process was
+unsurprisingly easy since I am running Linux. I have no idea what is the case
+with Windows, and franky, I do not care at this point in time. I rush to my
+computer in all awe, excited to see what obscure and ancient data these might
+have in them or how they even work. Most had MS DOS executables and Batch
+installation scripts for some kind of software as well as some XLS tables and
+other uninteresting data. 
+
+The mounting process had a peculiarity though.. I had to mount the whole disk
+and not just a partition whose file-system has been recognized by the kernel
+(`mount /dev/sda /mnt` instead of `mount /dev/sda1 /mnt`). Is that weird? I do
+not know..
+
+After minutes of staring at these boring files and finding nothing that would
+suffice my interest.. I have decided to format one of the floppies with an ext4
+file-system and make it my personal mini space. It is not like I can fit 4K
+images in here, but a couple of text files will suffice. 
+
+![Interesting Floppies](/images/floppies/pic2.jpg) Here I collected all
+diskettes with English shortnotes
+
+An interesting feature of floppies is that you can forcibly restrict the
+reader's head from writing to the disc by flicking a tiny switch on the bottom
+right side of the plastic cover. Not all floppies have that switch though.
+
+One thing I learned from researching floppies is their design mechanism. From
+what I read, they work magnetically just like modern hard disks and beneath the
+plastic is located the actual disc where the data is stored. When you insert
+the floppy into the reader, it flicks the metal shield, exposing the internal
+disc (black rectangle), attaches to it a read/write head and there it operates
+according to the system's commands (reading/writing the data while the disc
+spins around).