{"id":851,"date":"2012-02-27T14:54:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T19:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=851"},"modified":"2012-02-27T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T20:07:03","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-your-disk-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/851\/retro-scan-of-the-week-your-disk-box","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The Lowly Disk Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/diskbank_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/diskbank_small.jpg\" alt=\"Amaray DiskBank Media Mate Disk Box Ad - 1984\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>The Amaray Corporation DiskBank Media Mate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not every day that I stop and think about floppy diskette storage boxes.  I never had a favorite brand of them, but I did find fault with many of the designs I encountered over the years.  My least favorite thing about the DiskBank-stye box is if you pick it up by its &#8220;handle&#8221; (as illustrated here) without locking or properly latching the lid, the lid flops open and you end up with a pile of floppies on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to catalog and put together a historical timeline of floppy disk box brands&#8230;but then again, I don&#8217;t see myself doing that any time soon.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From BYTE Magazine, April 1984, p.149 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What kind of containers do (or did) you use to store your floppy disks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amaray Corporation DiskBank Media Mate It&#8217;s not every day that I stop and think about floppy diskette storage boxes. I never had a favorite brand of them, but I did find fault with many of the designs I encountered over the years. My least favorite thing about the DiskBank-stye box is if you pick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-design","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\/851","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=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}