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I remember thinking how futuristic the 3.5 inch floppies were given the 5.25 and 8 inch floppies (and cassette tapes) I had been used to.
heck, I got to use reel-to-reel for backups at one point…. (the VAX system in high school)
My university retired their reel-to-reel mainframe when I was in undergrad. We went to an auction and bought some surplus reels, I have one in my garage somewhere, it’s like 14” in diameter and weighs about 15lb. I should find it, I know the storage capacity is written on it, I think a couple of GB.
Take a pic of it next to a flash drive with a similar capacity.
And a banana for scale!
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