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What is a floppy disk?
by Hatrix 3y ago
What is a floppy disk?
- fragmede 3y agoWay to make a fella feel old. Before Threads or Tiktok, before ChatGPT, before Stack Overflow, before Google, before the Internet, before USB flash drives, before CD-roms, we had floppy disks to store and move data around on. They came in 8-inch, 5¼-inch, and 3½-inch floppy sizes, and held 2 MegaBytes, tops*. They were loud and slow, and prone to corruption, but that's what we had, back in the day. https://obsoletemedia.org/data/floppy-museum/ https://obsoletemedia.org/data/floppy-museum/ * 2 MiB raw, 1.44 MiB formatted, the way I recall, for the 3½ ones. There were later formats but they never quite caught on.
- FloatArtifact 3y agoI should change my username name to AncientArtifact :/
- earleybird 3y agoAnd you could boot a small linux to act as a firewall/nat service [0] for your brand new cable modem service on a cheap 486. Ran that for 3-4 yrs before nat routers became a thing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project
- tamimio 3y agoA 3D printed save button :)
- overnight5349 3y agoWait, are you serious?
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- sockaddr 3y agoIt’s happening