nixCraft 🐧who here remembers this special disk?
CupcakeRob 
@nixCraft 🖐️
Pendaran the Poet@nixCraft Ca-cha chunk chunk chunk
Juanzelli@nixCraft Oh wow! I had forgotten about those.
Neon 🌐🩵🦾@nixCraft We had 1 (one) for the entire class and 1 in the library
Alan Hicks@nixCraft
And the small bottle of isopropyl alcohol to moisten the head cleaner.
And the small bottle of isopropyl alcohol to moisten the head cleaner.
Kai@nixCraft
Never seen this.
Never seen this.
Stephane L. Rolland-Brabant ⁂@nixCraft I remember now that you show it!
Steven Pigeon
theNE@nixCraft I do. It was disk B in MS-DOS
Jeremy Mallin@nixCraft Is that a cleaning disk?
Gianluca
Jeff Grigg
Keith (karmajunkie)@nixCraft do you mean the size, or the fact that you had to clean the reader head periodically?
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Rhaedas@nixCraft Never used one, because as a C-64/1541 drive owner it was routine to have the drive apart to realign the heads anyway, so I just used alcohol and a Q-tip.
Pixel Dunn@nixCraft sometimes i wish i could too lol
Spectral_Shadow@hacknorris @nixCraft I had this photo on FB. Since your toot, I thought you'd appreciate:-)
@hacknorris @nixCraft I had those in my attic 😂 quite a bit before my time but I got to use them :-)
@spectral_shadow @nixCraft it wasnt due to being a floppy. i just read "head cleaning disk" on that one from nixcraft... but as i see my jokes are too bad for here xD
Guyroscope@nixCraft
Ah, the medium sized version.
Ah, the medium sized version.
Vládce všech delfínů@nixCraft Should I feel old? 👀
Solicitor@nixCraft lol a large floppy disc, you made me feel old 👴😹
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@nixCraft Even more fundamental was the head *alignment* disk.
And then ... having aligned your heads properly ... how do you read the disks that you wrote *before* you aligned your heads properly?
⚾️🤌☕🤌KinmenRisingProject-🇹🇼🇺🇦@nixCraft I still have some
DG5DBH@nixCraft I've preferred Q-Tips and alcohol. Of course you have to open up the device to clean the head.
martin lentink 🇪🇺 🇺🇦📎
alien@nixCraft I do, to clean your floppy drive, don't forget to add alcohol
a1@nixCraft that was the one to go on the whiteboard with a magnet to hold it, not the other ones
AnthonyI've had a few of those.
Mausmaki 🇧🇷🇻🇪
δημοκρατία
Lennart Petersson
Majid@nixCraft من یادمه، داشتم یکیش رو
Mark Levison@nixCraft I’m sure I still have some.
Do you have a machine left to read them?
Do you remember 8 inch floppies?
@nixCraft
Still got pascal program on mine
Still got pascal program on mine
sparseMatrix 📻Cleaning solution? Check!
Beatsmith@nixCraft Don’t copy that floppy.
@nixCraft my PhD thesis 😎
HansThe 1.x ones indeed had them. Such a long time ago
The CD version was better.
Maikel 🇪🇺 | Hire Me!@nixCraft I still miss them
Paul Horn@nixCraft Don't forget that One Weird Trick - hole-punch a write-protect defeat on the left side, and you could clean twice as many drive heads! 😜
Tony Wells@nixCraft I had an 8 inch one.
🥥 Tucker Carlson's Nuts 🥥I was, much like my TRS-80, "a reliable workhorse that has now been superseded"
@nixCraft what kills me is that those of us who have been using computers since the days of these disk cleaners are old fogies who “don’t know nuttin.” But the younger people are “digital natives”, who can wallow in their selfies and sext. Uploading an essay to their college’s LMS seems to be a bit more challenging, though. Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t know the keyboard command for printing in WordPerfect 5.0! That’s what I say.
Hashfastr 
xs4me2And more…
Toni 
@nixCraft It even worked. Usually
Kent Brewster@nixCraft I definitely remember failing to use the tiny bottle of IPA and being ... disappointed with the results.
Denn Mann ✔️@nixCraft I remember the 8" version.
Csgeek@nixCraft the disk that put the "floppy" in disk? <3 <3
Kevin Karhan 
@nixCraft only had the 3,5" version...
Charlie@nixCraft I'm pretty sure nobody ever used those, they were kind of like that 1 inch square of cloth new sunglasses come with. You just stuff them in a drawer and forget them for 30 years.
the_halmaturus (moving to FireFish)
Ike SeblonHa! I had forgotten this ritual. Tandy 1000...
Zilahu