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

nocteb@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Aganim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Less if you were sensible and included an error correction scheme to combat the unreadable sectors that were bound to pop up after a while. I can be quite nostalgic, but if there is one thing I don’t miss it’s the ‘reliability’ of floppies.

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