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Exactly the same for me. I would buy disks in 100's and they would be used once each for copying games and anything else.

I never had the shutter come apart inside the drive. But did have disks with missing springs or jammed shutters, and I used to just remove the whole shutter and use the disk that way until I could...

Anything stored as data files that can be copied to a device at the maximum speed of the connection is always going to win in the end compared to a linear recording method like tape or disk. I...

A lot of Sony's storage developments over the years have been well designed, reliable and robust. It was always just such a shame most never took off outside of their own products. They did...

Totally agree. CDs/DVDs/BD etc are all without a case for the obvious reason that it saves a lot of manufacturing costs. But I would have loved to see DVD and BD in a casing with a shutter for...

I'm currently loving using a Kryoflux to archive loads of floppy disks because it is chugging away reading the disks and it brings back so many memories from years ago, sitting around an A500+...

:lol: I feel for you. Playing Monkey Island 2 was bad enough. I did also play Beneath a steel Sky from Floppy Disk and that game was a nightmare as it would ask for a different disk ever few...

It isn't just floppy disks, but the whole experience. As you say, today's media doesn't have any feeling or soul to it, and is very generic. It's the same with CDs compared to vinyl... CDs...