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I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.
Add Nutella, enjoy?
Fuck being incorrect. Buy an old AKAI sampler and make music from floppy disks libraries, I still do with my S-1100. Wrong answer would be to ritually burn them...don't.
Print your business cards on them.
Thank Lord they come already formatted.
Throw them away and find a shugart compatible disk
link them together through the data and read-only slots to make a countdown chain.
Nerdcore bling
Use them
Get ten USB floppy drives and set up a raid:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080117032102/http://phoenix.cc.edu:80/MegaFloppy.htm
Youโll want to download and install the most up-to-date drivers. I believe this model benefits from a slight overclock too, so maybe look at purchasing a decent aftermarket cooler
Abort, Retry, or Fail. But all at the same time.
Put them in a mdadm raid array
Put them in a raidz2 situation
Oh, man. This brings me back to my Amiga 500 days. So slow to load, but I loved that thing. Wish I hadn't sold it.
Make little finger sandwiches out of them and have a tea party.
Your should install Lady Sia, a game published by TDK on it
Copy them
Write MP3s to them and use them to play one song in a modern car.
(I saw a video of someone playing a clip of music using a USB floppy drive)
Use them to do the longest en passant in the history of chess
Stick them on a wall like an artpiece
Eat it
Flopp flopp flopp flooooooooopp
Sell them as 3D printed save icons.