• pyre@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I’m older than that but didn’t want to self report. the first hard disk i remember my father buying was 40mb.

        • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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          17 hours ago

          I remember renting a game, and it was on a high density 5.25" inch floppy at a whopping 1.2MB; but or family computer only had a standard density 5.25".

          So we went to the neighbors house, who was one of the first computer nerds (I’m not sure he’s still alive now), who copied the game to a 3.5" high density 1.44MB disk, then we returned the rental because we couldn’t play it on the 1.2 MB HD 5.25" floppy.

          … And that was the first time I was party to piracy.

    • needanke@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

      I am not questioning the need for more storage but the need dor more storage without increased speeds.