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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: Campion

We had 12 inch floppies...................


71 posted on 01/22/2024 9:49:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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