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minus-squarebluewing@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 days agoYou can still buy new 3 1/2" disks. And usb connected drives are available to read and write them. So they ain’t dead. But I do pour one out for the 5 1/4". The OG of common portable storage. It was the floppist of the floppies.
minus-squarekamen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 days agoThere’s some additional nostalgia attached to calling them with the simple fractions as opposed to the decimal ones, even if they mean the same thing. HDDs for example are still around and I’ve always seen their form factor as 3.5", not 3 1/2".
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-29 days agoOG was the even larger physically / smaller data storage 8" floppy
You can still buy new 3 1/2" disks. And usb connected drives are available to read and write them. So they ain’t dead.
But I do pour one out for the 5 1/4". The OG of common portable storage. It was the floppist of the floppies.
There’s some additional nostalgia attached to calling them with the simple fractions as opposed to the decimal ones, even if they mean the same thing. HDDs for example are still around and I’ve always seen their form factor as 3.5", not 3 1/2".
OG was the even larger physically / smaller data storage 8" floppy