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by zaidmo 3948 days ago
Floppy disk and cd/dvd drives! When you need to recover files from an old pc and need a Windows XP startup disk.... it's no fun in 2015.

Worse, it was on an IDE Hard drive and I couldn't find an external hard drive case for it so I had to take it to a PC repair store that had an IDE adaptor. Charges $40 to copy any amount of data above 20 Gigabytes.

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I'll kinda miss the portability there of those. Not the multiplicity. Too many "standards", especially as you piled on the megabytes. 50MG Optical disk? Yea, where do I get a drive for that?