YouTube restores a flexible disc of scratch

There is nothing like the drive to build something simply to know if you can. Go to create a flexible drive, the favorite storage method yesterday, from scratch, because why not. For anyone born too late to be used to use it, the elastic disk is a magnetic magnetic polyester tablet in a protective crust. Insert it into a flexible drive, read a magnetic head or write data on the disk. If you have ever wondered why the “Save” icon appears the way you work, this will depend in the form of a flexible disk.

To start, Polymatt measured and reinforced the disk container and other pieces in ShaPr3D and Makerracam, then cut aluminum parts on the CNC Air Carvera. The same magnetic disk was manufactured by cutting the laser a piece of pets and asked to hang iron oxide powder. After assembling all ingredients and some moments of touch and mobility, he was already able to clean and write a flexible disk to it, albeit at a very basic level.

Declared us In 2010, in the years since then, those who clung to the longest. the Finally, he said goodbye to a flexible disk in 2024, and the German navy moved from coordination in the same year. The United States government Using 8 -inch elastic tablets to coordinate nuclear weapons launch in 2019.

Polymatt project was a great diving in technology and nostalgia. Maybe next time he can make a file From scratch.