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There was also the tactile feeling of flipping through a stack of floppies looking for one specific disk. Now that everything is so high capacity, you almost ne
by enneff 7y ago
There was also the tactile feeling of flipping through a stack of floppies looking for one specific disk. Now that everything is so high capacity, you almost never have to physically search for data. Of course the modern way is superior in almost every way, except it was a kind of wonderful sensation holding a disk box full of your stuff.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoNot so much fun when you where doing an Oracle Forms client side app, I recall having to use 13 or 14 floppy's in the correct order before I could even install that actual client side application.
- bitwize 7y agoFloppies had richer, warmer bits, man. The bits coming off USB drives are cold, tinny, and mechanical by comparison.