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Reskeet with how old you are using a vague proxy:
I used Zip Disks in college. Reskeet with how old you are using a vague proxy:
I was born during the pontificate of John Paul I.
You dang kids and your disks that can hold more than 1.44MB.
My first floppy drive was capable of storing 90k per side.
You had to flip the disk over to access the other side.
I used part of my Jeopardy winnings to buy a SCSI ZIP drive because it was faster!
What a fun bit of tech. SCSI plus a Zip drive. Nothing would ever be as reliable ever again.
Every professor required one and they were absolute shit.
Used zip discs but still had a floppy 💾 on my laptop
I had a laptop that weighed about 10 lbs that had a swappable zip/cd rom drive. Also had a modem card with an ethernet dongle.
My first laptop had 100mb drive that I would "never fill" Had zip disks within a month.
I could not imagine why one needed a whole 100MB on one disk when I first learned about Zip disks.
Oh me tooo, felt super profesh and official when I got to carry a whole case of em around for a student job
Zip disks were a luxury item when I was in uni
Attached a Carter-Mondale sign to my bike
I was just young enough that my college computer assignments were not submitted on punch cards.
Agnew was still in office
I'm six months older than Dr Who.
Huh. I always assumed we were roughly the same age, but you're 3 years older than me.
At this point in life, 3 years difference *is* 'roughly the same age'. ;-)
I used zip disks failing as an excuse my CS projects were late
On a related note, original Quake fit and ran directly off one of those disks in any of the CS computers
