When I was in college, I used to carry around a whole case of 3.5″ diskettes. Remember those? Burning a CD was still a newfangled craze, the Zip disk (remember that?!) was just taking hold, and no one had thought of the flash drive yet.

I wanted to be snazzy, so I always bought the colored disks. Yellow, red, blue, green … I could spot my disks a mile away. Until I left an important one in the lab, of course.

The floppy has gone the way of the dodo bird, but Acorn Studios has found a way to resurrect those little babies:

These little notebooks contain 50 pages. Perfect for quick notes. And they’re colorful, too. Maybe by some sort of karma my lost yellow disk from the lab long ago has become a notebook. Fat chance, but it’s nice to dream.

If you’re a computer fan (or geek in general), you’ll find all sorts of other cool stuff at Acorn Studios, including earrings made of keyboard keys, circuitboard earrings and keyboard magnets and cufflinks. There are even floppy disk notebooks, if you really feel like going into the wayback machine! Now those have pretty much gone the way of the dodo!

It’s always nice to know someone has managed to make old computers and junk useful. Yay!

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