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I'm cleaning out my wife's 2008 Subaru in preparation to sell it.

In the door pockets, I have found a protractor, a 3.5" floppy disk, and a cassette tape.

All of these things were outdated when the car was new (well, except the protractor, but I still find it funny. She was well out of school when she got the car.)

The car came with a CD player.

I have no idea what's on the floppy.

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> I have no idea what's on the floppy.

Luckily for you, there now is someone who wants to maintain the floppy driver for the Linux kernel...

Pity the floppy would have been demagnitized by years in a hot car.

If it wasn't in direct sunlight or of it was a light color there's a good chance it's still readable.

Come on OP, don't let us down here.

I know we're not supposed to meme here, but the fact that you are essentially living an SNL send-up of a soppy Subaru commercial needs to be pointed out. Because it's hilarious.

Better if the floppy, protractor, and tape were part of a MacGyvered (MacGrubered?) solution to some jam out in the wilderness.

I found an old Oldsmobile tape recently.

I couldn't play it (without hooking up my old tape player), but I did find it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8P-RVqWnR4

Interestingly enough, my 2019 Subaru came with a CD player. I doubt it will ever be used.

There are dash mounts for mobile phones that key into the CD slot. Works great on my Subaru. The latest ones have integral wireless charging and motorized grippers (!).

So finally the CD tray is the cup holder we always knew it to be...

My in-laws gave us an audiobook CD maybe 6-8mo after I bought my 2016 VW, and I honestly had to think about whether it had a CD player or not. I had a vague recollection that there was something in the glovebox, was hoping it was a CD player for the audio system and not for nav -- and I was right!

Our Tesla 3 definitely does not have a CD/tape player, although you can plug in USB sticks with music.

Wait... A protractor isn't out of date :P

If you've replaced paper and pencil with a CAD tool...

Eh, I'm sure there's a phone app for that.

There is, actually; iphones have the measure app as of ios12 (though I’ve never successfully used it), which does angles

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