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Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
05/10/09

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Ooh a pop-up book. That's even better than the 3-D Enterprise...
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aaj111
05/09/09

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Don't copy that floppy.
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Nick
05/09/09

@aaj111: that brings back memories. if only we had such catchy phrases now piracy would be less rampant.
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Homerjay is utterly alone.
05/09/09

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They could have called it anything they wanted- soft disk, flex disk, even removable disk. Instead they chose floppy.

Freaky engineers.
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Nick
05/09/09

@Who wants chowdah??: well, if you remember floppies were pretty floppy. also, if memory serves there used to be an 8" and my guess those were pretty darn floppy as well. the 3.5" sadly not so much. and of course their counterpart the hard disk. tee he he
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Nick
05/09/09

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this book would be much smaller today.
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bosskev
05/09/09

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OMG! That SO takes me back to my childhood, even down to that very message--"I'm ready to work-and play-with you." That's exactly how my Daddy would say it to me, and so very often. He'd show me the floppy and then how it would pop-up--Wow!-- and then he'd teach me how to insert it properly. Gosh, the memories!

* wipes a tear *

Wish we'd had this book, though.
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Nick
05/09/09

@bosskev: i am sad for you, but i just can't stop freakin laughin.
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Nick
05/09/09

@bosskev: the qeustions remains, though: what size was the floppy?
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Arvedui
05/09/09

@867-5309_Nick: I bet it was 3.5".
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Harrison is playing FFVIII
05/09/09

@Arvedui: I was thinking 5 1/4"
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Nick
05/09/09

@Harrison: Why don't Facebookers need approval?: well, boss ain't no spring chicken and we're talking about his pops so . . . i might a venture a guess into the older 8"
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admoseremic
12/17/08

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(.Y.)
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WildWon
12/18/08

@admoseremic: You've just created the best anti-disemvoweling comment ever.
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jdbaile3
12/18/08

@WildWon:

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(.Y.)

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i hope this looks like it does in the preview...

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Rabid Penguin
12/18/08

@jdbaile3: I'm pretty sure it doesn't...
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jdbaile3
12/18/08

@Rabid Penguin: No, not quite.

You get the idea...
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Unspellable
12/18/08

@jdbaile3: No. Not really.

In Opera 10 and IE7: looks like a drunken caveman's writing.

In FireFox 3.1beta: looks like a nightmare.

Not until it is copied and pasted into gVim does it make sense.
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Rabid Penguin
12/18/08

@unspellable: At first glance I thought it was an owl, but after looking at what he was replying too, I quickly figured it out ;c)
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wirelessdeo
12/17/08

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The log cabin looks like it would take a while to complete. Impressive
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Rabid Penguin
12/17/08

@wirelessdeo:

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You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

There is a small mailbox here.

>_

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Rabid Penguin
12/17/08

@Rabid Penguin: I suppose it _did_ take me awhile to make that... sorry... I'm bored.
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ripfire
12/17/08

@Rabid Penguin: Hey, I think you showed me before, but I forgot how you did monospaced fonts on the comments
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Rabid Penguin
12/17/08

@ripfire:

I used the <listing> tag for the cabin (which gives monospace), and a <pre> tag for the text (which will show stuff exactly as you type it, and is not-monospaced).

Tags are a little messed up on giz so you can't properly close them, so here's an example:

<listing style="line-height: .4"

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<pre

I am a monospaced stick man.

The line-height style allows you to adjust the

spacing between each line. It seems kind of kooky on giz,

but I'm sure with the knowledge I have equipped

you with, you can figure it out :c)

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ripfire
12/17/08

@Rabid Penguin: awesome. gotta save this message somewhere.
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Monty
12/18/08

@Rabid Penguin:

>OPEN MAILBOX_
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Rabid Penguin
12/18/08

@Monty:

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Opening the mailbox reveals a leaflet.

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ripfire
12/17/08

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Who doesn't like to type those ampersand soldiers?
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