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When was the last time you used a floppy disk? (sopuli.xyz)
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For me, it must have been 20 years ago in 2005. I got Kingston's 512MB flash drive for a Christmas present and oh my how great it felt to hold so much of memory in my pocket. After that it was clear to me that there is no use for floppies to me anymore.

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[–] 1 point 58 minutes ago

3 years ago. But in my defense, they were zip disks so they were a whopping 200MB, not 1.41MB.

This was for a long-time customer who had a safe full of old server towers from their business, and wanted everything backed up before destroying. They were blown away when I got 4 computer's worth of data on 1 flash drive, and kept asking if I'm sure I got everything lol.

I told them despite me copying everything off the zip disks, and IDE & PATA HDDs, I still had about half the space available 🤯. They appreciate all the freed up room in the safe, and I appreciate some retro towers to house some killer new hardware for a sleeper (pre RAMpocalypse).

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