Post title at limit, but meant to be peak tactile feedback in computer storage.
The space saved from being thin made it bad for looking up and finding a specific disk within a stack, tho, as it couldn’t fit an end label
We didn’t stack them though. We kept them in those boxes with a pointless lock, and flipped through them.
The good old days. I wish I still had mine but alas my old floppy box died in a fire.
Ah just like flipping through records at a record store.
I wish they’d make SSDs in a similar format with plug-and-play functionality.
Stick your disk in and boot from it. Remove after shutdown and take it with you.That’s called a thumb drive and you can do it as long as the computer you are using has the option to boot from USB enabled in BIOS (typically personal machines come with that enabled but machines out in the public often disable it specifically because they don’t want you booting a different OS)
But if it were an NVMe slot… That’d be juicy.
You can get near that level of performance with a small thunderbolt drive.
… you can totally do that now?
Although possible, it’s not really optimal to run an OS via USB
But if you get a really lightweight one it still can be better than those times… There were much less storage, RAM, CPU, etc. back then and still worked. Maybe not Windows, but there are more OSes
FreeDOS if you wanna go real retro.
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“didn’t take too much space”
Someone never installed an operating system from floppies. Win98 was 38 floppies. Heaven help you if you didn’t notice you only have 37 disks until halfway through the install.
A media format with 1.44mb per disk is not conducive to space saving even back in the day.
They’re talking about the tactility of the format, not the actual data limits on it.
You could build SSDs today with the exact same tactility of floppy disks but with terabytes of storage.
