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submitted 11 months ago by trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works to c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev

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I guess now we finally know why Babbage never finished building the Analytical Engine.

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[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 11 months ago

The true floppy!

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 7 points 11 months ago

8 inch disks were floppier.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 11 months ago

Before my time, I had no clue they even existed until this comment. Love learning new things.

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 points 11 months ago

Congratulations on being one of today's lucky 10,000!

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 points 11 months ago

True, but those were well out of style by the Doom era

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

My doom was a handful of 3.5 diskettes

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