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
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
“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.
They’re talking about the tactility of the format, not the actual data limits on it.
You could build SSDs today with the exact same tactility of floppy disks but with terabytes of storage.
You better patent this.
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
Windows 95 on CD-ROM included three music videos, presumably to show off the capabilities of the format.
I remember my copy had Buddy Holly by Weezer, and I think something called Good Times. What was the third?
The third was the trailer to Rob Roy.
That’s just 37 floppy disks of bloat. All you really need is 1.44 MB.
Here’s one with a gui lol
Or you could try KolibriOS or MenuetOS, both have images that allow you to install the OS from a single 1.44MB floppy
Awesome 🤩
Those distros even have a GUI? Amiga Workbench on 720k all the way! 😁
I see it and rise it to Atari ST TOS (256 KiB), GEM included.
Yep, an Atari ST man myself, but I had the STFM and then the STE, so TOS was in ROM. Wonderful machines. Still going to this day.
But it could be copied on a 720 KiB floppy with space left after writing.
Ok, you forgot the Kickstart boot disk loading the Kernel before. But yes, the Amiga was amazingly resource efficient.
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
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.
I still occasionally use floppies and I can assure you that they do in fact occupy more space than I’d like.