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  • (Score: 2) by mrpg on Saturday October 28 2023, @09:04PM (7 children)

    by mrpg (5708) <{mrpg} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Saturday October 28 2023, @09:04PM (#1330667) Homepage

    Maybe the 5 1/4 floppies.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2023, @09:37AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2023, @09:37AM (#1330720)

    I've already had people who used 3.5 inch floppies not believe me when I mention how we used to use 8 inch floppies.

    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday October 29 2023, @09:56AM (3 children)

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday October 29 2023, @09:56AM (#1330721) Journal

      Probably best that I don't show them my 5Mb (!) hard drive that is bigger than many computers and weighs over 2Kg.

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      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday October 30 2023, @04:28PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 30 2023, @04:28PM (#1330839) Journal

        I had (still have) one of those. An Apple Profile drive. 5 MB. Huge. Heavy. It sounded like a jet engine. And it was slow, even then. But faster than floppies.

        All I have left is the actual drive mechanism. That took up half the case. Huge. The other half the case was the power supply. I keep that drive on my bookshelf as a bookend and reminder of how bad things once were.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2023, @08:16PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2023, @08:16PM (#1331157)

        Last one of those I saw was propping open a lab door!

      • (Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday November 08 2023, @11:20PM

        by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 08 2023, @11:20PM (#1332197) Journal

        When I was a very small boy, and it might have been round about 1979, my dad took me to his work and into the computer room where he proudly showed me his SCADA system. It had 5MB disk drives. They were the size of washing machines and the disks looked like giant frisbees.

  • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Tuesday November 14 2023, @12:59PM (1 child)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Tuesday November 14 2023, @12:59PM (#1332883)

    3 1/2 inch... neither a disk nor floppy (well, until you take it out of the case).

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2023, @08:11PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2023, @08:11PM (#1333317)

      Put that thing back in your pants! You could get arrested doing that in public!