Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space

teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They’re talking about the tactility of the format, not the actual data limits on it.

  You could build SSDs today in floppy form with terabytes of storage.

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You better patent this.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To be honest, by 1998 something as big as win98 wasn’t supposed to be shipped in floppies. Then again, win95 was available as 27 disks

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Windows 95 on CD-ROM included three music videos, presumably to show off the capabilities of the format.

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    • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I remember my copy had Buddy Holly by Weezer, and I think something called Good Times. What was the third?

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      • teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The third was the trailer to Rob Roy.

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• SippyCup@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I stop occasionally use floppies and I can assure you that they do in fact occupy more space than I’d like.

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• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s just 37 floppy disks of bloat. All you really need is 1.44 MB.

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  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Those distros even have a GUI? Amiga Workbench on 720k all the way! 😁

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    • froh42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ok, you forgot the Kickstart boot disk loading the Kernel before. But yes, the Amiga was amazingly resource efficient.

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I learned a lot about the Amiga reading Ars Technica’s history of the Amiga series. Such a shame that that computer never reached Brazil

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    • bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I see it and rise it to Atari ST TOS (256 KiB), GEM included.

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      • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yep, an Atari ST man myself, but I had the STFM and then the STE, so TOS was in ROM. Wonderful machines. Still going to this day.

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Here’s one with a gui lol

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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Awesome 🤩

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Or you could try KolibriOS or MenuetOS, both have images that allow you to install the OS from a single 1.44MB floppy

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