The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoThe audacity!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up1613arrow-down17
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minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 hours agoNow give it to me in 3.5" floppy disks.
minus-squarerumbalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoI wonder if we put serious effort into it how many GB we could fit on 3.5" media
minus-squareAustralianSimon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 hours agoLet’s see… 1.44MB per floppy… carry the two…uhhh 0.14% of a GB, sir.
minus-squarerumbalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoSuper disc was the same size package and stored 12 0 MB in the US and 240 MB a few years later abroad. But this is all around 1996.
minus-squareAustralianSimon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoThat’s a lot of low res nudie pics.
minus-squareabigscaryhobo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoSome of the biggest archives around are on magnetic tape if I remember right.
minus-squarerumbalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoGod, I used to manage a data center that had a 128 tape Dell library, If I had that library today and a couple of LTO 9s in it… I don’t know what I’d do with 2.3 petabytes, and the time from request to load would be abhorrent But damn it, I would do something cool
Now give it to me in 3.5" floppy disks.
I wonder if we put serious effort into it how many GB we could fit on 3.5" media
Let’s see… 1.44MB per floppy… carry the two…uhhh 0.14% of a GB, sir.
Super disc was the same size package and stored 12 0 MB in the US and 240 MB a few years later abroad. But this is all around 1996.
That’s a lot of low res nudie pics.
Some of the biggest archives around are on magnetic tape if I remember right.
God, I used to manage a data center that had a 128 tape Dell library, If I had that library today and a couple of LTO 9s in it…
I don’t know what I’d do with 2.3 petabytes, and the time from request to load would be abhorrent But damn it, I would do something cool