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

  • teft@piefed.social
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    8 days ago

    “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.

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      8 days ago

      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.