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Computer drive sizes over the years
(lemmy.zip)
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I've got a full-height 5 1/4" 1GB hard drive around here. Thing is massive.
I've also got most of the storage devices I've ever used over the decades:
I'm missing the following:
Never used 9-track tapes, punch cards, or removable disk multipacks.
Off the top of my mind, stuff that I've used and still have lying around:
Funny thing is, I think I have no extra SATA hard drives and modern SSDs lying around, because most of the computers I have that use them are still in operation.
Funny how optical discs made it onto none of your lists
Magneto-optical. Even better.
You need a Jazz drive and a mean looking 20mb MFM hard drive that didn't have auto parking.
Syquest cartridges.
I've actually got a little stack of punch cards. It's a program my dad wrote when he was in college, he gave it to me when I started programming