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

• froh42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Don’t fret. Only snobby kids whos parents bought it for them had them. Because they wanted to one-up you. And they didn’t even appreciate it. Like I did my C128D that had a built-in floppy drive.

      Fuck you, Csabika.

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• bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But it could be copied on a 720 KiB floppy with space left after writing.

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