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I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.
Label in sharpie as "Bitcoin password" and superglue to the sidewalk in a busy area. Watch people try to pick up.
This is 98% the right answer, but you drop them somewhere that keeps them intact, and believable enough so that people take them, and spend the rest of the weekend going to thrift stores trying to find an external floppy drive, and the next month trying to figure out how to get their iPhone to mount it.
Alternatively, you could write
Label one βImportant Documentsβ and then attach it to your refrigerator door using a fridge magnet
Click on them to save your files.
Just carry one around with you and whenever something important happens or you are about to do something risky, pull it out, press it with your finger and loudly say "Save".
Edit: Bonus points for carrying a huge cardboard mouse pointer to click with.
Edit 2: I really should read all the replies before starting to type.
Hitting the save right before the murder spree.
Combine them into a blazing fast 14.4 MB RAID 0.
Wow, those floppy drives are really singin'. Heheh
Had no idea you could actually do this.
Carry one in your pocket so you can whip it out in a threatening gesture... like in the film hackers
Whatever you do, as soon as you crack it open get your nose right up there and inhale deeply.
Get a few suitcases at Goodwill or something, stick a floppy and some 'redacted' papers in a red envelope, leave them in random places around town and observe what happens. Make sure to wear a trench coat and sunglasses when you 'forget' them at each drop point.
Floppy disks are a way to install linux on your microwave try a distro like arch linux it's microwave safe
I cook Arch btw
ding!
Contact TDK about extending that limited lifetime warranty.
Put all your precious documents on the disks and then rub a magnet on each one of them to make sure they are properly energized. The stronger the magnet the better.
Load virus on to banking system to embezzle fraction of cents on each financial operation.
Write your own copy of Windows 10, minus the bloat. You'll probably have 2 floppies left
With those in hand, start waving them around maniacally and shout "WHY IS IT CALLED A FLOPPY IF IT'S SO DAMN HARD!?"
Pirate Windows 95
Start a porn collection of high quality pictures. Be sure to zip span them across all disks⦠all 1 photo
open it in a non-destructive manner, switch every read/write lock slider, put it back together.
Several years ago, I found a 3.5" floppy in an old desk, so I wrote "(My company's product) Production backup - DO NOT LOSE" on the label, and then left it on the floor in a main hallway of our office.
In my mind, it hopefully made a few people chuckle, but my real dream was that someone picked it up and tried to return it to the development team.
Press them to make a real world save point.
Inserting your floppy is a time honored tradition. Have a few too many beers, and give it a go. You have 10 chances to succeed, it seems.
Gift them as cup coasters.
When Windows 95 was still sold on floppy, it came on 25 fucking floppies in the box.
So I say put Windows 38 on them.
Mount nine of them on a square board so that they're all focused on a single point for a mild solar furnace.
Use the last one to look at yourself, the proud owner of a mild solar furnace.
What kind of floppies are you thinking of? the very little metal on those discs aren't that reflective.
I was too far in the future, using CDs. Floppies, wow.
Now I'm going to have to rethink my whole thing.
manually etch the bits yourself. Just use a hammer and chisel
Unwrap them and open it and then put them all back so they look used. Write on the box in sharpie "Backups 1/127". Delete the critical production system at your work. When someone asks where the backups are, hand them these.
Sell them to someone who will test and resell them to the airline or medical industry... Manufacturing is a likely customer as well, plenty of legacy equipment there that's airgapped and still running decades-old hw/sw.
Youtube warning, some Boeing 747s
(This is a wrong answer since you only have a single pack. If you had several cases, you might actually be able to make a buck)
Insert them into your urethra!
Finally update device drivers in Windows the right way!
You could use them as a memory card for ps1 games.
Sue the maker for false advertising. 1.44MB is clearly not High Density.
It is compared to their predecesssor.
The 720kb "double density" diskette used for example, in Commodore Amiga computers.
Throw them at junior sysadmins like shuriken.
see how many of them it takes to hold a single 4K image
That's just over 8MP.
You could easily store a 4K Image on a floppy in half-way decent quality, two with visible jpeg artifacts.
Buy a USB floppy drive for each one and then create a RAID 0 disk array. It'll be super quick and gloriously noisy.
It says they're high density, so use them as ammo for your rail gun
crunchy but old snack
Write βIf found, please return to Minot AFB, ND c/o Duaneβ on them & scatter them in various airport restrooms across the US.
find the most complex AI model file you can put on it
https://www.tdkrfsolutions.tdk.com/support/warrant-terms
Probably not the same terms as when they made the disks, but it's their terms on limited warranty now.
Also, hand the disks to anyone asking you for your email for marketing purposes. Tell them all your information is on the disk.