Microwave Me: 3 1/2" Floppy Disk
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Channel: MicrowaveMeShow · 2015 · Entertainment
Experiment #406: 3 1/2" Floppy Disk (Rated G) This is an experiment I didn't expect to be quite so epic, but it caught fire right off the bat and made for an awesome video. Many of you are probably too young to remember these but they were our media storage devices in the 90's and early 00's. They held only 1.44 megabytes of data. That's right, megabytes, not gigabytes. And the CD-Rom wasn't a completely practical storage device so if you had bigger files, you were screwed. Before that they had the 1.2 megabyte 5 1/4" floppy and the 8" floppy, which were black, thin, and actually very floppy! Anyways, microwaving a floppy disk has been on my list of things to do for a long time, so I'm glad I finally got to do it, and right after the hard drive, too! I got two of them, actually, an old AOL disk and a Compuserve disk, I don't know if Compuserve even exists anymore. But anyways, I'm glad I did it even if it was a fairly quick experiment. Microwave Me is in its 14th season and is continuing the trend of bigger and better microwave experiments than the previous season while being filmed in 1080p for the best quality and as always stars Captain Microwave, the show's host and producer, who for this episode uses a Proctor-Silex microwave that he named Anna.
