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[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Flip the plastic chicklet in your floppy disk so you dont accidentally erase it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Cutting a notch in your floppy disk to write protect it....

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Don’t forget the stickers to un-write protect it :-)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Chewing up a piece of paper and shove the goo into the holes of a casette you didn't like so you could record on it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You could also just have put tape over the hole...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We'd put tape over the holes, I remember recording Death Metal albums over my parents old exercise cassettes, for example.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I prefer to believe they never noticed

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Same thing for VHS tapes. That had to be something **super **important, like if they showed Raiders on TV

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Cut a little square hole in the side of a 5.25" floppy to double its capacity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Or, as my lazy ass would do sometimes, move the slider and grab a magnet so maybe my "homework" wouldn't load and I'd get another day.