They were the first medium where to store computer and PC data. Even the operating system was recorded on them before the internal hard drives appeared. Today, however, those square plastic pieces that owe their name to the flexibility of the thin disc contained within them have been permanently set aside. Undisputed protagonists of the 80s and 90s, floppy disks in March 2010 were officially put out of production by Sony, supplanted by the evolution of technology that replaced them first with CDs and DVDs and then with memory sticks and increasingly capacious external media that allow to store an amount of data unthinkable at the time of the birth of floppies.
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They were the first support where store computer and PC data. Even the operating system was recorded on them before the internal hard drives appeared. But today those square plastic pieces which owe their name to the flexibility of the thin disk contained within them have been definitively set aside. Undisputed protagonists of the 80s and 90s, i floppy disk in March 2010 they were officially discontinued by Sony, supplanted by the evolution of technology that first replaced them with CD and DVD and then with memory sticks and increasingly capacious external supports that allow you to store a mass of data unthinkable at the time of the birth of floppies.
If you too are among those who still have entire collections of floppy disks about to be thrown around the house or inside the boxes of the garage, remember first of all that, being electronic waste, they must be disposed of in special ecological islands or collection centers. WEEE. But if you really can't separate yourself from them, too nostalgic for the first Pascal software that you managed to program yourself and especially if you have the right amount of creativity and dexterity, you can try your hand at these ideas of creative recycling to give them new life by transforming them into useful accessories, simpatici e very very geek.
- How about starting with a simple one notepad? 2 floppies are enough, one for the front cover and one for the back one, a few sheets of paper, even better if those already used on one side, which will be cut to the same size as the disk and suitably perforated at the height of the floppy holes, wire, plastic strips or even metal rings from old notebooks to tie everything together.
- Another idea is to build a penholder or a little plant pot (see instructions). Also in this case 6 floppies are enough to make the walls, a plastic bottle and some glue. After joining 5 discs to form an open box, you will have to insert the plastic bottle which will have to be cut one cm above the cube. The sixth floppy, on the other hand, will be destroyed and you will only have to recover the outline that will be inserted on the finished box.
- You can also use a floppy disk as a handbag mirror. In this case you will need to use a 1.44 MB diskette and glue on the top a piece of mirror sticky paper. You will immediately have an absolutely space-saving mirror to always carry with you.
- From floppy disks then, in full geek jewelry style it is also possible to obtain eco-jewels and original earrings by simply detaching the central plates of two floppies and following the instructions on the website www.instructables.com.
- Also on the most famous do-it-yourself site in the world and always in full eco-geek style, you can find the indications to make eco-bags according to your tastes and your availability of diskettes: there are in fact several tutorials on 'topic and we would like to point out in particular a large and capacious one with 42 floppies and one with a triangular section, smaller, with 12 floppy.
- For those who find it hard to resign themselves to the passing of time, we strongly recommend trying to make the Floppy-clock, perhaps inspired by the one built by these young designers and sold on eatsy at a price of 19,90 dollars. It will be enough to apply the hands on a single disk, preferably the slightly older ones from 5 and 1/4:
- And finally there are who, how Nick Gentry, English graphic artist and web designer, taken from reusecreative, he thought about painting on floppies already juxtaposed as if painting on a canvas, resulting in truly expressive portraits!
Because recycling, by now we know it is a true art!
Chiara Fornaro
