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Floppy disks, burned CDs, and tape drives: How we survived before the cloud

How-To Geek·Sydney Butler·19 days ago
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8 Questions · Test Your Knowledge The wild world of pre-cloud data storage Trivia challenge Before the cloud, we had spinning disks and prayer — see how much you remember about the glory days of physical storage. Floppy Disks Optical Media Tape Drives Capacity History Begin The iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk that dominated the '90s had a maximum storage capacity of how much? A 720 KB B 1.44 MB C 2.88 MB D 4.5 MB Correct! The standard 3.5-inch high-density floppy held 1.44 MB — barely enough for a handful of Word documents by modern standards. It's wild to think entire operating systems were once distributed on stacks of these little guys. Not quite! The correct answer is 1.44 MB. While 2.88 MB 'extended density' floppies did exist, they were rare and barely caught on — 1.44 MB was the reigning champion of the floppy era. Continue Which company invented the floppy disk in the late 1960s?…

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