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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by iggldiggl on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:55PM (#32829420)
> 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.

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Re:The last person standing in the floppy disk business by outworlder on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @05:16PM (#32830272)
For quite a while, floppy disks exceeded the system memory by at least one order of magnitude.
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