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[–]VantaFount 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun - 4 years ago (4 children)
Ooh, CDs, look at this fancy schmancy fucker here! Those optical disks are surely just a fad. Durable data storage is what people really want. Like the ZIP drive!
[–]redacted 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (2 children)
ZIP DRIVE!
100 megabytes of storage POWEEERR!
Absolutely the last backup solution you will ever ever need.
[–]FormosaOolong 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
on a SCSI connection!
[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
I had a Jaz drive at one point, the 1GB zip drive that never caught on
[–]sodasplash 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
lol. My ex gf wanted to get a bunch of stuff off her old laptop but was concerned that it might be too much memory. I handed her a Zip drive that was 3 times larger than her laptop’s capacity.
But yes, CD’s do have nice staying power — if you can find something to play them...
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