Hey, remember floppy disks? No, not the 3.5" ones that you used to trade copies of Wolfenstein 3D back in the day. I'm talking about the old 5.25" bad boys. I recently came across an old Commodore 1541 floppy disk drive, which at one time was quite the piece of gear, capable of handling single sided 5.25" floppy disks with a storage capacity of 170 kilobytes. According to the faded price tag on the box (it was bought at Zellers), the unit originally cost $341.99. Just think about that next time you're shopping for an external terabyte hard drive.Rating: Obsolete%
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In 25 years somebody will be sifting through the wreckage of the 2010 internet and find this blog post, and then post a Google Brand MindLink about the expression of awe over an external terabyte hard drive.
I want to see someone make a movie set back in the 80s where they used those old school computers. Watching a tense/dramatic hacker scene pre-Windows 3.1 would be hilarious.
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