Radiohead’s 1997 Floppy Disc for Computers Deemed OK

February 20, 2014 Alan Cross 1 Comment

If you’re of a certain age, you may have absolutely no idea why the “save” icon in Windows looks like this:

Back in the day, that’s how we saved, backed up and moved our data: on 1.44 MB (yes, MEGABYTE) floppy discs. I have boxes and boxes of these things in my basement.

Just to illustrate how old Radiohead’s OK Computer is, Greggory forwarded this picture from Retronaut. Anyone remember this? I don’t.

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Garnet

February 20, 2014 at 6:57 pm
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I did find the link to the screensaver on the floppy located here:
http://gizmodo.com/5900839/too-bad-you-cant-copy-radioheads-floppy
But you need to be running XP for it to work.
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