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.
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redimk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year agoThis 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).
milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 1 year ago
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.
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?