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roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 days agoThat’s a lot of complexity added for 80kb. Curious if there was much software that just wouldn’t have fit on a single floppy otherwise.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
It’s an 11% increase, that’s huge. Floppies weren’t just used to store programs, also to store files.
yesman@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Some of the first real home/office PCs had only one floppy drive and 640kb of RAM. Fancier machines had a second floppy. If you were a millionaire, you could get a HDD with upwards of 30Mb storage.