Floppy Disk Nostalgia
Comments focus on reminiscing about floppy disks and drives from the 1980s and 1990s, joking about the impracticality of using them for large modern datasets, and noting their use in legacy systems like San Francisco's train control.
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shoulda put it on floppy disks, or minidisks
That's a lot of floppy disks!
Why don't you use floppy disks then?
Don't forget 1.44M floppies.
Where are the giant floppy disks?
Best Computers That Still Have a Floppy Drive
Floppy disks..ah, good times :)
Good thing I have a floppy drive
In the days of the primacy of floppy disks, yes.
I suspect a lot of machines still have old floppy disk drivers...