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I've become almost entranced with the concept of comparing things to the size of a Floppy Disk. I'm actually planning to get a tattoo of one on my right forearm

by sbr464 8y ago

I've become almost entranced with the concept of comparing things to the size of a Floppy Disk. I'm actually planning to get a tattoo of one on my right forearm. I've been working on a large business management platform for the last couple of years and noticed that after investing $500k (salaries/etc) and building a huge amount of functionality, the frontend and backend codebases are still under 1.5mb. Pretty amazing.

calabin 8y ago
I actually got a floppy disk tattoo on my foot in a moment of spontaneity (bottomless mimosas). https://imgur.com/a/slCG519 https://imgur.com/a/slCG519
- sbr464 8y ago
  nice haha
p1mrx 8y ago
When we had a 486 running Windows 95, I used to convert CDs to WAV for fun. The GSM 6.10 codec in Sound Recorder (22050 Hz, Mono, 4 KB/s) could fit about 1 song onto a floppy.
- scruffyherder 8y ago
  With Real Audio, you could fit one side of a LP onto a floppy diskette https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/04/20/getting-first-side-dark-side-moon-onto-floppy-diskette/ https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/04/20/getting-first-... Of course sound quality is lacking, but it was really cool at the time, but the amount of of time and resources needed was insane for the time.