I found this old software on a medium I don’t recognize at my church. Does anyone know if this has value to anybody?
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Wow this makes me feel old
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Bros
The box is from some fancy Apple software from long before most of you were born.
The contents are just the skeletal remains of assorted species of the Save Icon.
I know they’re floppies but when I see them like this it always reminds me of the first intern role I had at datacard/gemplus UK, I had to change the disk stacks in the main frame at specific times with specific access codes, lift the lid and pull out the disk stacks, put them on a specific numbered trolly and insert the next stack.
Was all very precise and I saw someone screw it once, glad it was a perm staffer and not me, I took so many notes on that process I dreamt of them for years.
As everyone else said, they’re floppy disks with the plastic case removed.
Since you found them in a church, could they have belonged to a church bell system? I’ve seen other church bell systems in the past where the songs came on weird mediums.
This is just a random guess, I don’t know why anyone would remove the casing.
either that or the porn is hidden there
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What? You can fit a bunch of naughty jpgs on 1.44mb
Hahaha, true, you could fit maybe a few jpg photos on a floppy
There were even digital cameras that used floppies to store the photos they took.
That looks like a floppy disk with the protective casing removed…
Beagle Bros was a software company that developed useful quirky software for the Apple ][ computer. They had a schtick that all of their manuals and promotional materials were styled like flyers from “old West” salesmen. They were actually pretty funny if you were in on the joke.
12 megabytes of RAM, 500 megabyte hard drive, built-in spreadhseet capabilities and a modem that transmits it over 28,000 bps
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Games and stuff
Maybe try asking here !whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
might be a floppy disk, but without the case
Yeah, floppy without the case was my immediate guess too. Not sure why they would have been stored this way though. It’s a bit weird.
Interesting they look like three and a half inch floppies out of their sleeves
That’s definitely what it is, but why was it removed from the plastic housing? It would never last long without the protection, and even if it was being bulk-written to, you wouldn’t do it outside the housing.
Very strange.
I would rip em up as a kid all the time.
Someone probably had no idea what they were doing. Like, at all.
The more interesting thing to me is the oddly old timey brand
That brand was a software maker back in the Apple II days.
From Beagle Bros - Wikipedia:
Beagle Bros was an American software company that specialized in creating personal computing products. Their primary focus was on the Apple II family of computers. Although they ceased business in 1991, owner Mark Simonsen permitted the Beagle Bros name and logo to be included on the 30th anniversary reboot of I. O. Silver, released on December 12, 2014 by former Beagle programmer Randy Brandt.
Found via reverse image search:
the disk that lies inside a floppy disk (a 5.25 floppy disk judging by the size)
Thanks, everyone. I thought that’s what they were, but thought there was maybe something I didn’t know. I think we’ll probably just trash them.
Yeah, I’d be surprised if you could pull data off them, but data recovery pros never cease to amaze me
Well, I feel old.
3.5” floppy discs which have been removed from their plastic shells.
