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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/13402469

"We have a technical debt that stretches back many decades."

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They started using 5 1/4 inch floppies in 1998? That was already kinda late for those.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

lol for real. 5.25" were like 360KB. the universal standard by then was 3.5" (1.44 MB) disks and had been for several years. CD-ROMs with 700MB we're all over by 1994.

the real heads had CD-Rs by 1998 and we're making mix CDs and imaging cracked WaReZ.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

3.5" floppies were getting passé in 98, Zipsdisks were hot shit