When I was 17 I remember having my mind blown that you could use a hole punch to double the storage space on your existing media. In a way, these type of hardware hacks put you more in touch with the devices you were using.
Day-before-yesterday I put a memory card in the DVD slot on my iMac. I have no clue how I'm going to get it out, other than taking apart my computer. Or leaving it there, given I don't use DVDs anymore.
There were purpose built 5.25" diskette punches. I still have one. For those who don't know how such a contraption looks, Wikipedia has at least an image [1], but no article in English unfortunately.
yeah... I remember buying higher quality disks, that were marked for lower density and single sided (forget the brand) and discovering that you could punch and format double sided, double density without issue... jackpot!
It would have been hard to imagine these days having a stack of thumb drives and digging for one at least 8gb, and thinking, when I saw the 512mb-2gb ones of just tossing them away.
closest thing today that I can think of is buying one of those fake chinese 128GB USB drives on ebay/alibaba, running h2testw to determine its really 8GB, making a screenshot and starting a refund claim - bam a free 8GB usb drive.
Use a thin L-shaped piece of cardboard to fish it out. I used the top flap of a cereal box, folded in half. The tab on the flap was big enough to hook onto the SD card.
Day-before-yesterday I put a memory card in the DVD slot on my iMac. I have no clue how I'm going to get it out, other than taking apart my computer. Or leaving it there, given I don't use DVDs anymore.