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

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[–] 89 points 10 months ago* (18 children)

"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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  • [–] [S] 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    To be fair, by 1998 something as big as win98 wasn't supposed to be shipped in floppies. Then again, win95 was available as 27 disks

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Windows 95 on CD-ROM included three music videos, presumably to show off the capabilities of the format.

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    Those distros even have a GUI? Amiga Workbench on 720k all the way! 😁

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Ok, you forgot the Kickstart boot disk loading the Kernel before. But yes, the Amiga was amazingly resource efficient.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I learned a lot about the Amiga reading Ars Technica's history of the Amiga series. Such a shame that that computer never reached Brazil

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Don't fret. Only snobby kids whos parents bought it for them had them. Because they wanted to one-up you. And they didn't even appreciate it. Like I did my C128D that had a built-in floppy drive.

    Fuck you, Csabika.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I see it and rise it to Atari ST TOS (256 KiB), GEM included.

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