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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by reaperducer on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:30PM (#29740438)
They are also tremendously slow

When you're only reading 1.44 megs of data, speed isn't that big a deal.

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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by jandrese on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:44PM (#29744297)
It has been many years now, but I recall a full floppy dump took on the order of a few minutes to complete. Small data sizes were countered by the incredibly slow floppy drive interface.
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