Mine broke when the eject failed, I used a paper clip to pull it out, but lost t...

electromagnetic on Jan 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?

Mine broke when the eject failed, I used a paper clip to pull it out, but lost the paper clip. When it started smoking I had to pull the floppy's power - thankfully I had the side open to my computer so I didn't have to turn the whole thing off before I caused an actual fire.

I think this was back in the early 2000's.

rbanffy on Jan 12, 2011 [–]

Here it just silently failed. I wanted to write something to a floppy and it just couldn't.