31 May
2023
31 May
'23
8:14 p.m.
On 2023-05-31 1:52 p.m., Alexander Schreiber via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 12:22:53PM -0500, Mike Katz
via cctalk wrote:
Looking at a BYTE from 1983, there was a Japanese 3 inch floppy, 500K raw.
That must of lasted as long as the ad.
In 1981 when i got my first 5MB hard disk drive
at work (I had to write the
drivers for the OS myself) I was able to put all or my source code,
binaries, executable, applications and the operating system and not fill
half of that disk.
A the first computer science class in school (very early 90s) our teacher
held up a 3.5" 1.44M floppy and told us that "this can hold all you'll
ever write" ... well, that aged worse than fresh milk ;-)
Kind regards,
Alex.
Ben.