Oral-magneto drive.
Date: September 29th, 1999 @ 19:33
In the Era of the 5.25″ Floppy, data storage was a much more fragile endeavor than it is today when every typical home system has anywhere from 1-50 gigabytes of hard drive storage.
On the back of most disk jackets were warnings in many different languages about exactly what not to put your poor floppies through.
The floppy is all but irrelevant for most home users now, and the venerable 5.25″ lingers on only in the basement of your grandfather who, despite having enough money to travel on vacation every summer simply will not spend $500 or less for a brand new computer. He’s still got that 286 downstairs, and keeping it running, what with his WordPerfect 3.41 and DesqView, is some sort of strange badge of honor.
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