What do you think would be the best Save Icon instead of the old Floppy?

[Hadden89]

#SaveTheFloppyIcon

#SaveTheSettingsGear-WrenchIcon

[far4]

I am in favor of cherishing history and teaching in schools not only the history of the world, but also the history of scientific and technological progress.
The floppy disk is a symbol. Just like a vinyl record and an audio cassette. Electron lamps and laser disks. Maybe in 100 years people will forget all these wonderful things. But not today.

When I was a kid, one of my favorite writers was Isaac Asimov. And these are not only positronic brains, but also mechanical calculators, many kilometers of electric relays and lamps, robots that read romance books using photoelectric relays. Good books, read for the first time as a child, make a person a better person. As a rule! Asimov, Sheckley, Bradbury, Żelazny, Brunner, Lem, Varley. Many dozens more names from my childhood.

A floppy disk is as much a cultural treasure as books. As recognizable as names, book titles, neologisms, plot details, quotations that trigger a flood of memories and associations, so too should graphic symbols be recognizable.

[Pathduck]

Ah yes those were great times...
Don't copy that floppy!

[far4]

@Pathduck

...of saving the coherence of times and meanings.

[DoctorG]

@far4 No, the saviour of us is Saint Backup from Church of The Daily Tasks.

[far4]

@DoctorG
These are different levels of salvation. Like RAID-1 and terminal skills in the GUI era.

By the way, even magnetic tape drives are still in use and are considered reliable. And the Japanese are very slow to give up floppy disks. And there were different floppy disks: Sony's minidisk looks very similar to a floppy disk.

So that's another question: how much have we forgotten about floppy disks? Maybe it's exaggerated like with vinyl records.

[Catweazle]

Someone remember which was the save icon in the pre-floppy era?
Well, floppies are older than graphic interface, but the floppies than are not those which we know as icon, but those big cardboard thingies, 8" and 5 1/4" not these last ones from the known icon.

That means, going with an historic symbol for save, more correct maybe this icon

[DoctorG]

@Catweazle Oh yes, the 8” floppy on Shugart drives with my DIY Eurocardbus Z80 PC in a 19” rack and CP/M OS – i remember around 1980. The next floppy was 3½” (costed 800 DM ).
1984 or so i bought a IBM compatible PC hardware when i was working as programmer for a tecnical engineer office.