Tag: disk
TuneUp Utilities 2010 – Review
Name: TuneUp Utilities 2010 Type: Maintenance software Price: £24.59 (Amazon) Keeping on top of the myriad problems that can blight an otherwise healthy PC can be quite a challenge. To a novice, watching a PC slowly grind to a halt…
GODLIKE GENIUS: CD-Rs that look like floppies
Yesterday, we had floppy disk posters, before Christmas we had floppy disk gift tags, today we’ve got floppy disk CD-Rs. Evidently the humble 3.5″ floppy, subject of much mockery in the school playground, is now the coolest kid on the block.
Sure, they only hold 200MB of data (though that’s 13789% more than the originals) and they’re a little on the expensive side – at $10 (£7) a CD, but you can’t put a price on retro-cool, right? Right? What do you mean “28p and a blackjack”?
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Floppy Disk Gift Tags – for the special geek in your life
Remember the amazing sticky labels you could put on 3.5″ floppies? Especially when you overwrote the same disc twenty times and ended up with a slightly wider floppy than would actually fit into the drive, because there were so many labels on it…?
