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Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once (files.mastodon.social)
submitted 10 months ago by Masimatutu@mander.xyz to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] KernelAnxiety@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's something poetic about using a floppy disk to get hard

[–] preasket@lemy.lol 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if they could now make floppy disks with the same form factor but modern tech

[–] GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Like this?

[–] preasket@lemy.lol 1 points 10 months ago

Haha, that's cool

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I thought it was gonna be a USB drive but this works too

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

If you put a small, double sided optical disk inside, you could probably get a few hundred gigs in there, maybe even up to a terrabyte or three. If you put flash storage, you could fit a few dozen terrabytes. Hell, you could build that yourself if you just bought a bunch of microsd cards and soldered the contacts into a different form factor