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3.5-inch floppy disk change purse holds coins, not data

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Next time you’re standing in line at the checkout getting ready to pay for your Pop Tarts and Red Bull, why not pony up your pennies in retro-geek style.

These handmade 3.5-inch floppy coin purses by BraveMoonman (she also makes some awesome felt calculator watches) are perfect for keeping your spare change from rattling around…

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August 8th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft retro

3.5-inch floppy disks get new life as jacob’s ladder toy

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Remember those wooden Jacob’s Ladder toys you played with when you were a kid? You know, the kind where you flip the top block over, and then all of the other clacky blocks flip over on themselves?  Here’s a clever modern take on the old wooden toy.

Created by artist ZacharyBear, this Jacob’s Ladder is…

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June 12th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: cool toys geek art + craft just plain fun retro

pinky the ghost pixel art mosaic made from 3.5-inch floppy disks [pac-man]

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Got 256 old 3.5-inch floppy disks lying around the house? I can’t think of a better use for a bunch of floppies but to make a giant 16×16 pixel art Pinky ghost mosaic out of them. Can you?

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March 24th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft retro video games

what if software still shipped on 3.5-inch disks?

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Remember the good old 3.5-inch floppy disk? Now remember how annoying it was when you had to install a program that spanned 4 or 5 disks? Well, imagine what life would be like if you had to install today’s bloatware on your computer using floppies. That’s exactly what the designers at Antrepo Design Industry envisioned…

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January 27th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing design geek art + craft retro

obsolote floppy disk becomes equally obsolete cd-r disc

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Feeling retro? If you’ve got a hankering to cram an old 3.5″ floppy disk into your computer, but it has no floppy drive, now you can live out your floppy fantasies by stuffing one into your almost as outdated CD-R drive.

These CD-R discs may be square, but they’ll work in a standard CD or…

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January 14th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing design just plain fun