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And I feared they would use 5¼" floppies, those were terribly unreliable.
by raxxorrax 6y ago
And I feared they would use 5¼" floppies, those were terribly unreliable.
- asplake 6y agoHa! I took boxes of scarily unreliable 8” floppies around the world in my first job working on aircraft simulators. More than 30 years ago though...
- dhosek 6y agoWhen 3.5" floppies (stiffies) were introduced, the big selling points were that (a) they could fit in a shirt pocket and (2) you could toss them across the room and they'd still work. At my first job, I kept a 5¼" floppy with "only copy of important data" written on the label hanging off my filing cabinet with a magnet.
- raxxorrax 6y agoThey were before my time, but I had an old drive I "examined" (destroyed) as a kid. It was unclear to me how such a large thing could hold so little memory.
- dhosek 6y agoYour younger self would have been fascinated by these: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3350.html https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_335...