Why… why… why are the disks upside down?
Well, to be fair, that’s a hell of an air gap. And those things were very safe, not even the Lockpicking Lawyer can open those.
gotta leave the key in the tower too so i could pretend to start it and drive it as a kid using my dads computer.
Also if you took the key out, it wouldn’t have started.
Actually, I guess it depended on what kind of key it was, some cases had locks for opening them, others had the locks wired into the mobo and it wouldn’t start unless the key shorted the connection. Or you could open it up and hot wire the computer lol.
Why lock them in a case when you could just slide the plastic square to lock the disc? Security was built right in
Sometimes it’s about not wanting it stolen physically.
But then again this whole box is small enough to just carry off so I dunno.
Still more secure than Flock’s shit.
Also I had one of those… The plastic… The color…
I was able to unlock those with a letter opener.
I have one still from my childhood and I never had a key. The lid flexes enough to bypass the lock.
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Spent some time imaging a bunch of floppies from my late father last summer, and I noticed that on every single 3.5" floppy box, the keys were the same. The locks had same bitting.
…also just noticed that the single 5.25" floppy box (of Commodore 64 floppies) I have at hand that even has a lock is currently unlocked. And the key is at my parents’ place. …have to check if the key is the same as the rest when I visit the next time.
As a kid I figured out most of those tubular key locks that were used to disable the keyboard/power/HDD all used the same key too.
after paying for an upgrade to nt, some win$lop messed up date strings and the parts department freaked out and called the police to dust keyboard for prints. i ridiculed those clowns for months
Safe and secure. Just like our digital lives today!
Checkmate hackers.
Display of wealth, 90s style
What kind of psychopath stored their floppies upside down like this?
UpperEndian format, clearly.
The same people who wrote the data backwards.
In the 90s, that would have been a single copy of photoshop.
And you could open it with a spoon.
For some reason I have never seen one of those where the spare key was not attached to the primary key 🤔
That’s because all of the other instances had the keys get lost and the owners had to break them open and buy new diskette cases.
Break it? You.could just push the hook from below and the whole lock rotated.
Break them open? You mean you actually locked the dust cover?
I just threw the keys away.
You mean to tell me if you lost the keys you could just break them open? I threw away countless locked cases full of diskettes.
