I'm so fascinated by old tech, and I really like watching videos about these. Very entertaining!

@toaddx

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Michael for hearting my comment! (Haven't edited the comment because as I know when editing comments the heart is removed)

@carteranonymous5680

3 жыл бұрын

Same here dude

@larsl-xs2sc

3 жыл бұрын

You should visit one of these computer museums when possible. Some have some very cool old tech.

@regitz3833

3 жыл бұрын

@@toaddx do u have sileo ur self?

@Rainbow__cookie

3 жыл бұрын

I love vaccum tubes i started collect radios

Now I'm guessing you're gonna test them.

Ooh, I love the idea of this, just a huge box full of floppies with unknown content. So much excitement about what could be on them! I shall also find the video of the first box like this now.

@zach_c

3 жыл бұрын

I want to buy some floppy disks and a reader/writer of some sort just to see what would happen.

I wonder what was going through their mind when they opened the box of floppy disks lol

@RockRedGenesis

3 жыл бұрын

Depending on the age of person/people involved, it's either, "Oh, a box of floppies, that's not for us!" or "What are these, they're kinda big for SD Cards! Hey, Steve, what are these?!!"

@CHGOfficial512

Жыл бұрын

Old good times

"We thought this was for us" In Argentina something similar happened, but the PS actually stole thousands of packages.

Next three videos of this series: 1. Testing all floppies (except the sealed one) 2. Installing everything that does work 3. Running them on Windows 10

@the_mariocrafter

3 жыл бұрын

YESSSSS!!!

@arteonyx

3 жыл бұрын

Can floppies work on w10?

@TeionM83

3 жыл бұрын

@@arteonyx Yes they can. If you put a floppy drive into a Windows 10 machine, it will be recognized. And FAT16 is still supported, so you'll be able to read/write it too. I'm not entirely sure about formatting though.

@reimarpb

3 жыл бұрын

@@arteonyx yeah, it just requires that you install windows 10 on a machine that still has slots for floppy disks

I've never seen pink diskettes before either. Yellow is rare too.

My mom was big on genealogy before she had kids, so she has a sizeable collection of the Family Tree Maker software and other software like it. They're mostly CDs from what I can tell, but just looking at them is pretty cool!

I literally screamed out loud of joy when this came up in recommended!

Please test all of these! Some of them are really interesting

Next 2 vids: 1. Inspecting / Loading 100+ floppies 2. Cleaning up 100+ malware infections ;-)

Wait, USPS opened it up even with your name on it and PO Box on it? Holy hell. How daft can they be? (lovely video though)

I find it funny how the diskettes that drew a Windows 3.1 interface did it wrong. Note the Maximize button to the left of the Restore button. Normally you’d see a Minimize button to the left of either a Maximize or Restore button.

Installing games with 3 or 4 floppy disks was like madness back in the day 🤣

@marccaselle8108

Жыл бұрын

If you think 3 to 4 floppies was tense, try 8 or so for the DOS port of mortal Kombat II

Low density disks only have one hole ( some people call them holes punch) , HD disks have 2 holes.

@ExperimentIV

3 жыл бұрын

honestly if mjd doesn’t wanna keep the LD/DDs, I’ve got an Atari ST that needs more floppies I can write software for

@anthonylenzo3675

3 жыл бұрын

@@ExperimentIV funny i just got rid of my Atari STE with an external 40MB hard drive. This version had the MIDI ports built-in. I use to record melodies from Yamaha DX7 and Roland M32 synthesizers using a program call Notator Sequencer Score Writer. Gave it to neighbour kid who now creating his own R&B songs. He was a bit blown away this type of program existed back then. It like the same reaction my nephew and niece would get when i show them how we use to connect to the internet via 56K modem...lol

@ExperimentIV

3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonylenzo3675 that's awesome! i still don't have any music software. my st also has midi (i think they all do) and i want to use it as a patch librarian for my dx7 and as a sequencer (bc it's incredibly low latency and an amazing MIDI clock). any way you would consider mailing a rando in the youtube comments some music software? I don't have an internal hdd (yet?) but like... i would be so appreciative. or if you know anyone i could contact to help me! i don't necessarily need original copies of software bc that stuff is all way too expensive and collectible now

I feel like he's the only one that can create good content from zero budget

@IbrahimAhmed-ml5dk

3 жыл бұрын

@UwU what you just said its not just good content, its a new level

I dont know how i found ur channel but im glad i did :)

@j.w.techchannel

3 жыл бұрын

Well, welcome to what's known as *great content!*

@linuxameteur

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to a great community and great content!

@nekrugderzweite8298

3 жыл бұрын

Hello nice community :)

@MichaelMJD

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you’re here! : )

@Ubaids_VMs

4 ай бұрын

The video that got me here was installing linux on PS2. glad i did

2:47 there has been A LOT of irregularities with the postal service and deliveries in general, I wish I could remember the name of the video that had A BUNCH of comments of people describing their previous awful experiences of shipping or having stuff shipped by USPS

My dear God now i really needs to you look out every disks to see the programs and users files the curiosity is huuuuge.

The USPS is a disaster right now. I can’t get anything mailed out and they’ve handled Christmas terribly.

wish i had old tech, it really amazes me

@kit7une_

3 жыл бұрын

Check thrift stores that aren’t goodwill, you can find windows xp laptops sometimes

@nezbednik

3 жыл бұрын

@@kit7une_ you know, i don't live in the us, so i can't (kinda sad ;-;)

I honestly cannot wait to see if these floppy disks are actually broken

PO person: finally maintenance goodies Also PO guy after opening it: hmm expired black 3½ biscuits I don't eat expired biscuits

As for the font pack - I've got one of these with my Canon BJC-4650 printer in 2001 (on a diskette as well). Not sure whether it is this exact font pack. It is when the fonts were not free and you had to purchase these separately. You had a nice free pack of fonts to use together with your limited bundled set of fonts for Win 3.1. Unfortunately, these were ASCII only, so, e.g. you could not really use them if your country does not use Latin alphabet. They work fine in later versions of Windows. Tested them on Windows 7 and they worked fine. Got a similar diskette with a fonts pack with HP LaserJet 6L.

Are you going to do a video where you check out what's on these?

The Canon font pack, it came with Canon printers back in the days. I should have that diskette somewhere.

is nobody gonna talk about the labels? those ones with the Win3.1 UI looked awesome.

A lot of floppies... but not even a GB of space XD

4:50 I wonder if there's a Floppy Image of that disk

Ooh,microsoft plus! Great Video!😀

At this point we should call him Floppy MJD....

@CNETech

3 жыл бұрын

I do not want to imagine that...

I wish I had that many floppy disks lol. Thanks for the interesting unboxing video.

4:40 I believe it's ProComp Plus. I kind of remember that software from a Computer Chronicles episode

Procomm Plus - Serial/Modem Terminal Software Acronis - Backup related WRQ Reflection - Mainframe or Unix terminal software Sterling Software - Makes things for mainframes or accounting CA - Mainframe and or accounting HP Colorado - Tape Drive software (Colorado Backup)

I really wanna know what recipes are held on those recipe disks

Wow! Another Row. Of Floppy Disks. Amazing.

Can you try installing all the software on the 98PC, and check out the user created and blank Floppys?

Hey @Michael MJD I have at least 4 LaserJet4 printers from my dad's old company if you want to try those disks out sometime lemme know

3:44 That's a weird-looking 'CD' 😂😂

@MichaelMJD

3 жыл бұрын

It is indeed 😂

ProCom Plus was a terminal program ages ago. It was mainly used for logging into BBS systems, and other serial communication like that.

@NickDalzell

3 жыл бұрын

I used to dial up METARS (aviation weather) with Procomm Plus

Awesome video,Michael!

Would love to see a Video of the differnet terminal emulator programs that are in theis set, for example the Reflection stuff and the "The Eye" software from Sterling.

Yes copy that floppy!

i love these videos

I know this video is a month old but it would be nice to see a mashup of different floppys from this video, just showing the software and stuff on disks. Curious about things like the truetype font by canon as uninteresting as that may be. Would love to see a bunch of these explored. I know you have another video where you sat and tested 100 broken floppy disks, i'd like to see something similiar with these on the software with the more interesting picks of the lot.

I wonder if that box was fragile.

Great video Michael MJD keep up the great videos

@Damaj301damaj

3 жыл бұрын

I still use you bc i have no cd lol

@NatetheNintendofan

3 жыл бұрын

I thought you are dead windows xp.

I see a video titled "Reading another 100 Floppy Disks"

I would love to be able to have my files in diferent devices like that. I don't know why I like the idea of making labels by hand or printing them

I’m actually installing ms golf 2 right now

Yeah Big box of floppas

Dude I love your content. Kinda makes me sad you don’t get many views/subscribers.

Usually people cookbooks

It could be cool a video with all the blank ones.

Keep up The great content. And also check if they work or not please

Love It!

Dump all of the floppies and upload them to the internet archive just in case.

now that you have that norton antivirus diskettes it could be quite neat for a retrospective about Norton Antivirus and why it was so popular back then and why nowdays is one of the worst antivirus. Like a Rise and Fall of Norton Antivirus because i hold a special place for that antivirus because my father used to like that program until we got infected with a Executable injecting virus that crapped all our files into oblivion and Norton did nothing to prevent it sadly, he then moved to Panda Antivirus i still have some of the discs they used to mail you when you brought a subscription but since we had a rough time years ago and was quite expensive to have that suscription going on we just cancel it.

Bitstream is a famous font maker, bru

Procomm Plus was a modem dialer and terminal app

Hope you check if all those floppy disks work. I want to see it.

Hi Michael , Could you dump that DFE-530TX floppy? My DFE-530TX only has CDs in the retail box no floppy. Merry Christmas ;)

Considering that you have over 100k subs, I think I'm early

Ooh I Love A idea

Time for some disk jockeying me thinks :-)

You should copy all Data from Floppy Disks to CD/DVD or USB as Back up, because JP person (born in 2000 after) they don't know what is this, too shame.

i really want to see the Norton antivirus on a floppy disk what is looks like !

Can you share the font disk?

That version of netscape was my childhood I loved it and always had less issues than other browsers. I wish there was a skin for modern browsers to look like those old versions of netscape

Hey micheal can you make a video on first ssd in the world

@tomypower4898

3 жыл бұрын

wait a minute...yes!

I have cardfile.exe on my Windows 10 laptop and it actually works. I also have clipbrd.exe from Windows XP.

Wow, they opened it? Lol. Reminds me of the 2009 core 2 quad case sticker was opened at the post office and stolen. Fools sent me an empty envelope! Got a refund from the seller though.

very intresting

@wendymi

3 жыл бұрын

I like it to

@mirellawendyvivasblossiers1570

3 жыл бұрын

like it aswell

@jamiec9019

3 жыл бұрын

i like floppy disk

god i’m in love with those pink floppies! if anyone has any they wanna get rid of... hmu? also looking for teal. DDs or High Densities are fine - I’ve got an Atari ST and a windows machine

Wait a minute Enderman a Windows challenge installing Windows 10 on floppy drives it was only on a VM

could you dump the floppy named "Recipes"? It made me hungry and curious '

Ah yes even more floppy discs.

Installing windows 10 from floppies when

Hmm, somewhere to send the multiple boxes of floppies that I can't bear to throw out...

@tomypower4898

3 жыл бұрын

i said yes!

heart every comment if you love your fans

he should see if they work or not

@theglitcher8553

3 жыл бұрын

Testing 130 Broken Floppy Disks - Are They Really Damaged? Part 2

Wowowowo. If you want floppies i can give you my dad has a lot and he wants to throw them on trash

Love your videos! MJD

@PCandGamerboy

3 жыл бұрын

Stupid

What's the point if you aren't gonna ipen them

Why dont you try installing windows xp from floppy disks? it would be fun

imagine how much money he spent just for a vid or for 100 computers XD

tranclucent??

now test them

It says procom.

NOT MAINTENCE 😐

Jeez

Upload the official disks to archive org if you would please

The way you pronounced "Bitstream" did not sound like "Bitstream" ;)

hi

There is no such thing as too many floppy disks.

Why not try to open the disk(s) labeled "recipes" and do a cooking show?

Why are u not famous like bro ur like Linus but has more fun video ideas

Ello

You have half a gig of likes

I just realized that you got 112k subs 😁

@theglitcher8553

3 жыл бұрын

113k!

@theglitcher8553

3 жыл бұрын

In only five days!