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To: Yo-Yo
What I find amusing is that the computer icon for "save" is a 3.5" floppy disk, something that most people under 30 have never seen.

I think that's a 'hard disk'. The floopys were round but your point equally valid.

66 posted on 01/22/2024 9:15:26 AM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: usurper
Uh, that's a 3.5" 'floppy' disk, although by then, they came in a hard plastic case that wasn't floppy anymore. Here's what an original floppy disk looked like:

That's an 8-inch floppy. When I was a co-op engineer in college in the early 1980s, the place where I worked had lab computers that used them, but they were already obsolete. Held 384k IIRC. That's kilobytes, not megabytes!

67 posted on 01/22/2024 9:23:47 AM PST by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: usurper
I think that's a 'hard disk'. The flo[p]pys were round but your point equally valid.

Looks like a 3.5" floppy disk to me.


75 posted on 01/22/2024 10:04:52 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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