Masimatutu@mander.xyz to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 年前Floppy disks were high-tech weapons oncefiles.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up11.24Karrow-down111
arrow-up11.23Karrow-down1imageFloppy disks were high-tech weapons oncefiles.mastodon.socialMasimatutu@mander.xyz to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 年前message-square106fedilink
minus-squaremacniel@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 年前But my dude… Diskettes had Copy Protection! /s
minus-squareatlasraven31@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 年前Yeah! The little plastic slider you moved up and down.
minus-squaremacniel@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 年前On commerical disks those are fixed on the frame (but can be flexed/cut away of course)
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 年前…and they only protect the data on the disk from being changed, you can still copy it. Otherwise the disk would be unreadable.
But my dude… Diskettes had Copy Protection! /s
Yeah! The little plastic slider you moved up and down.
On commerical disks those are fixed on the frame (but can be flexed/cut away of course)
…and they only protect the data on the disk from being changed, you can still copy it. Otherwise the disk would be unreadable.
Also known as write-protection.