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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

IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

OP they really were. Back in the day when I was a sysadmin I would keep a bunch of tools on a floppy that I would carry soured as I did user support.

It was like carrying around a toolbox to work on things.

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autriyo@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I still do that but with a usb drive, which is way more capable especially with ventoy on it.

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- IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Diggit!
  
  I don’t do sysadmin work anymore, but near the end of my time doing that the network capabilities were much ore stable than what I worked on in the early 2000s so I put them on a share.
  
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miked@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Lol. I did the same.

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