Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later...
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 month agoIt’s an 11% increase, that’s huge. Floppies weren’t just used to store programs, also to store files.
Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later...
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 month agoIt’s an 11% increase, that’s huge. Floppies weren’t just used to store programs, also to store files.
yesman@lemmy.world 1 month 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.