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so computer papers don't fall out i think (lemmy.world)

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[–] d00ery 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I remember the icon, but I never knew that was it's purpose.

[–] MeanEYE 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Unless you had pocket PC or PDA you never needed to touch it. And those were expensive business toys back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

When I was a kid I scored a Compaq iPaq for cheap on eBay. I even got the expansion pack for it that slid over the device with a dial up modem. When we would travel away from home, I could get on MSN messenger and chat with friends on there. I thought that was pretty cool at the time.

[–] MeanEYE 2 points 4 weeks ago

Oh. Same. I had HP iPaq and loved that thing. Used it as smart phone and had a dumb phone next to it. I was so proud of my setup.

[–] HessiaNerd 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Or just a thumb drive?

[–] stoly 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This is a year or two before USB. Windows 98 was the first with built in USB support.

[–] HessiaNerd 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I was using briefcase in 2001 or so. You probably could have used it with a zip drive or superdisk before that. But

I hated floppies. I lost so much data on them. They were very unreliable. I actually lost an internship because a floppy failed when I was trying to use it. Rather than blaming the person who was stupid enough to rely on a floppy as the SOLE location of that info, they blamed me. It held AutoCAD drawings that were going in and out of a machine shop. I'm still bitter.

[–] stoly 1 points 4 weeks ago

You’re a better person than they ever were. Just remember that you’ll never blame an innocent intern for the mistakes of others.

[–] MeanEYE 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Trying to remember if those existed at the time. And am not remembering anything.

[–] HessiaNerd 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently it wasn't removed till win 10....

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/24426-add-briefcase-new-context-menu-windows-10-a.html

I didn't use it before USB drives cause we usually used laplink to transfer big file collections...

[–] MeanEYE 1 points 4 weeks ago

Oh wow. I did not know that. I remember it during Win 95/98 era.