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[–] 48 points 5 days ago (6 children)

All of it except the part where it implies people immediately abandoned floppies when hard drives showed up. They coexisted for quite a while, and computers would often have one hard drive and one floppy drive (so A:\ and C:\ without B:\).

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  • [–] 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Also it was a lot more religious than the post implies.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    The BIOS part is not correct but that's nitpicking. Also omits the second coming of floppies through ZIP drives.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    And LS-120 drives, which were so much the second coming of floppies that they could also read regular 3.5" floppies while making an alarming screeching noise the entire time to sweeten the deal.

    ...I still have three of them someplace. I definitely have a box of LS-120 disks somewhere, too.

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