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> It was an absolute embarrassment of a technology. They seem tiny now, but floppies were huge back then because they gave regular people a simple way to save
by 7bit 7mo ago
> It was an absolute embarrassment of a technology.
They seem tiny now, but floppies were huge back then because they gave regular people a simple way to save and move files. Writing them off today ignores how much they pushed personal computing forward.
- forinti 7mo agoThe only thing cheaper were cassette tapes. Those were indeed unreliable, awfully slow, and couldn't store much data (but you probably already had a cassette player, so it was dirt cheap).