{"id":481,"date":"2008-07-14T12:26:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T17:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2008-07-14T12:55:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T17:55:47","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-unflappable-floppy-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/481\/retro-scan-of-the-week-unflappable-floppy-girl","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Floppy Girl Doesn&#8217;t Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/floppygirl_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/floppygirl_small.jpg\" alt=\"Floppy Girl - Opus Floppy Disk Ad - 1985\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Click above for full ad.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No Bad Memories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That sounds more like a slogan from a denial-centric pop psychology movement or a dystopian memory-wiping company than from a maker of computer diskettes.  It would be easy to dismiss this marketing tagline as absurd, were it not for the enthusiastic bearer of the message: a buoyant, bubbly woman cheerfully peddling OPUS-brand floppy disks.  Indeed, she looks like her brain was totally wiped clean by OPUS&#8217;s technical staff some time in the early 1980s &#8212; a testament that their memory technology really works.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/floppygirl_huge.png\" target=\"_blank\">high-resolution scan of Floppy Girl<\/a> in PNG format for those of you out there who might want to turn it into a <a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/floppygirl_1280.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">desktop background<\/a>.  Or print it out and impress your nerd friends with vintage floppy pin-up art.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Popular Computing, February 1985 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Have you ever lost important computer data to a hard drive or disk failure?  Share your disaster stories below.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click above for full ad. &#8220;No Bad Memories.&#8221; That sounds more like a slogan from a denial-centric pop psychology movement or a dystopian memory-wiping company than from a maker of computer diskettes. It would be easy to dismiss this marketing tagline as absurd, were it not for the enthusiastic bearer of the message: a buoyant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}