Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business
by iggldiggl on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:55PM
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> It's especially amusing that a single photo taken on my phone exceeds the capacity of a standard 1.44MB 3.5" disk
… and the full decompressed version of that image might not have fit into your computer's memory at that time, either.
Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business
by outworlder on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @05:16PM
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For quite a while, floppy disks exceeded the system memory by at least one order of magnitude.
It's especially amusing that a single photo taken on my phone exceeds the capacity of a standard 1.44MB 3.5" disk; same for the total download size of a fairly barebones website. Nostalgia!