This reminds me of when I got a new PC when I was younger and I was shocked… “WHAT?! THEY COME WITH 128MB RAM NOW!!! AND THEY HAVE A DVD TRAY??? No more floppy disks!!!”
Fuck, those were nice times (except for dial-up internet).
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jsveiga@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s the guts of 3.5" floppies, like these, they usually stored 720kB, then 1.44MB, but the latest versions (double sided) were 2.88MB.
The larger one at the bottom is from a 5 1/4" (orange in this picture, the bug daddy in the picture is 8", first type I used, with COBOL)
… and now you kids know where the “save” button icon came from.
redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
MyDearWatson616@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember having a CD burner, dvd burner, floppy drive, and Zip drive for those rare occasions.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember backing up all my documents on a zip drive and feeling like we reached peak storage.
Last month I bought two 6TB drives into my house because of all my photos/videos.
Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Zip drives!
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I still have a working zip drive.
cousinofjah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I still have a bunch of zip disks that I want to examine. Think they’re still good?
milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 1 year ago
There’s nothing quite like passing around copies of games that are eight-diskettes large and finding out that disk #8 is unreadable after a 30min install. Good times.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have the original floppy set for MS Office 4.3 for Windows 3.11.
Fourty-three 3.5" disks.
milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 1 year ago
Hahaha, mfw the last few disks is the same face the morning after a spicy burrito.
dirthawker0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I got all excited when the cost of hard drives got down to $10/MB.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 year ago
The part that’s wild to me is I have an SD card in a computer in my pocket that cost $10 or so and is basically disposable but it’s larger than the hard drive in my first computer from 25 years ago
Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
You can get a 128GB pendrive for like 15€…
That’s crazy.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember upgrading my Macintosh computer from 512kB to A FULL MEGABYTE! Wow, what a difference, suddenly I could run two programs at once - even three small ones.
Ah, the eighties… Those were the days.
breathless_RACEHORSE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Started with the 8" bastards on a dedicated word processor (with a 12" CRT, green phospher glow, and typwriter style printer built right into the top of the unit!) that my dad had for medical filekeeping at his office.
It’s been amazing watching storage tech from those to zip drives, and now, floppies of any kind are dying.
jsveiga@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
My daughter found a 3.5" floppy in a drawer a couple of years ago (she was 20) and went “What is this? It looks just like a ‘Save’ button!” :)
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hope you smacked her for that lol.
Thteven@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My parents first computer was 3 feet tall and cost $30,000. I liked to play frogger on it lmao.
jungle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t forget the cassettes before that. (Sinclair 1000 / ZX-81)
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Having worked in a datacenter somewhat recently, I can assure you that cassettes are still in use. Now, they manage to fit tens of TB in a 4"x4" square.
breathless_RACEHORSE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oregon Trail, on cassette, on a RadioShack TRS-80 in the school library.
Gaming heaven.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you play them backwards a satanic message is heard before the media bursts into flames.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
God damn I’m old.
evatronic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Hear, hear.
As in, wha? Did you say something? taps cane on the floor
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Come in!
emogu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Your belt onions are looking spiffy today