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by collabs 5 days ago
Kind of tangential but the picture has floppies so... I absolutely hated floppies. I could never tell when one would go bad. I would ride my bicycle to a cyber cafe, send and receive emails and save text files or whatever to my floppy to bring back home to read but sometimes they just randomly failed. No idea why or how. Something about CRC failed. I'll take solid state drives or USB flash drives over floppy disks for daily use any day.