The Floppy Disks That Work With Your CD-ROM Drive

I do believe that almost everyone who's reading this article has used at least once in their life a floppy-disk. At some point, floppy's were the most advanced storage media around, and although their failure rate went through the roof, they were a lot better then cassettes (or, God forbid, punched cards). It seems that there are still quite a few people out there who are still pretty much in love with floppies, as one of them has actually launched a couple of such products that work with none other than...one's CD-ROM drive.

One of the "fondest" memories I have of floppy disks is the moment when I've tried to install the Windows 95 OS on my very old 486 PC (yes, it was a VERY long time ago). The revolutionary (at least at the respective moment) operating system came on several floppies, and as I was approaching the middle of the installation, one of the disks simply didn't work. You can easily imagine my wrath (cursing Microsoft, the provider of the disks, the guy who had invented these "hellish" storage products, etc.), especially since this was going on the middle of the night.

However, leaving memories (good or bad) aside, the truth of the matter is that floppy disks really left a powerful impression on the evolution of computers (they're actually still in use, in certain places around the world). And this is the reason why a person identified as Baba Akcja (from Poland) has released (via designboom) some storage devices he calls floppy disk CDRs, which are, as the name says it, recordable compact discs shaped like 3.5'' floppy disks.

Each of the CDs comes with white x blue, red, green and yellow labels and provides a storage space of around 200 MB (not exactly impressive). Furthermore, they're also very expensive, but I guess that there still are some pretty crazy floppy-fans out there who are willing to cough up 14 US dollars for having their data stored onto one of these things.

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