Because computers were bigger in the past…

Feb 29, 2024 12:12 PM

mikmig

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floppy

retrocomputing

storage

oldtech

disk

What you show her after she misunderstood what you said

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the standard 3.5' floppy disk

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Don’t piss on my boot and tell me it’s raining, that’s a tiny man.

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I'm going to tell my kids this was what size floppy disks were

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* clicks slider * "You can fit so many nudie JPGs on this bad boy"

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Why does he need that big save icon?

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v

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50MB in 1956

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I've seen it captioned as 5MB in some places (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4u1zmk/5mb_hard_drive_in_1956 & https://medium.com/predi">n_1956">https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4u1zmk/5mb_hard_drive_in_1956 & https://medium.com/predict/how-quantum-physics-computing-might-make-man-teleport-in-the-future-4b8156bf8526 ). This Snopes article appears to show what could be the same drive from the 305 RAMAC being loaded onto a plane, with a 5MB capacity: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/computer-storage-1956 Wiki on whole 305 RAMAC system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC

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