Gregory's ServerI hope floppy disks make a comeback in the same way vinyl did.
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 @atomicpoet This is why we don’t have personal jetpacks, hover cars or wear shiny onesie outfits. Everyone is stuck in the past.  What I'd like to see are drive bays that can take a large capacity SSD in the casing of a 1.44MB drive... and you can insert them as a removable drive just like a floppy. Looks retro but can store TB of data. @atomicpoet only if I can still format them above their rated capacity (i.e. with FDFormat) @atomicpoet If that were to happen, computers would need to support a port for them, and also the floppy disk would need to support modern storage sizes and file transfer speeds. Imagine a floppy disk holding terabytes of storage space and having modern transfer speeds. That would be insane.  @atomicpoet Software had a lot more top-end detail and warmer mid-range on floppies, that's for sure! @atomicpoet My first Linux install was I believe 19 1.44MB floppy images downloaded from a university FTP server over dialup, which took a couple of days. If I could find a 486DX2-66 to install it on, it might be fun to recreate that. Apart from the 2 day download; I have no desire to recreate 9.6 kilobaud or 14.4 kilobaud or whatever speed I was running at the time. @atomicpoet Agreed, most media today now is locked behind some SaaS forever subscription. We need a physical format, to trade media with, preferably capable of running small applications straight from the disk. |
@atomicpoet I once know a guy planning to design a delay using old floppy disks circling like record players instead of loops of magnetic tape - I don't think he ever got around to build it - I would have been the first to buy one of him for sure!