Give your desk a little retro-tech vibe while cleaning out the old office junk drawer
Posted 12.30.2008 at 2:22 pm 3 Comments

Floppy Disk Pen Holder Brock Labrenz

Editor Doug Cantor demonstrates how a drill and a few zip ties can transform a stack of old floppies into a handy box for holding those even older data-recording devices: your pens. For more detailed instructions, head to the original Instructable for this project, courtesy of completegeek.

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Gopi
01/16/09 at 7:52 pm

Nice way to go green.

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Altoids
04/20/09 at 10:51 pm

pretty cool!
-Altoids

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Jackal
06/30/09 at 8:02 am

I am going to have a million of these
I bet I could make a shed out of floppy disks

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