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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: When Is A Game Old?
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:38:40 +0200
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On 4/24/2024 4:25 PM, Justisaur wrote:
> On 4/23/2024 10:44 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:30:06 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
>>> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>>> say:
>>> <snip>
> 
>> I can't say I /miss/ floppy disks, but I do miss the form factor.
>> There was something very reassuring about those slender cassettes
>> (especially 3.5" disks); a solidity and presence that said, "Yes, I am
>> here holding your data". Slotting the disk into the drive and getting
>> that reassuring 'clunk' was quite satisfying too. Smaller form-factors
>> - like thumb-drives - never quite recaptured that. I think it's why I
>> loved ZIP disks (and its competitors, like LS120 super-floppies) so
>> much.
> 
> At least they were much harder to lose than the numerous USB thumb 
> drives I've got now, and all fit in the same container the same way.
> 

it also was harder to put them in the wrong way round more than once, 
unlike usb drives which you have to try in at least three different ways 
until they work as they should

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