Any one see anything wrong with this picture?


http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/hprajani/phun/disk.jpg

silly germans.

lollerskates

roffle

Umm... u just pulled this from IRC from Tuesday?

I remember seeing this in Highschool.

i think this is older than the internet.

I think that makes you cool or something....

what's that square green thing?

YAY!¡! I'm cool.. or something .. ooh, maybe he was talk about someone else

I pulled this off a design listserve that I'm on. Oh and that square green thing, is a piece of dark magic none only as "the floppy". It sounds scary I know, but believe it or not, some still practice this kind of magic along with devices such as osciliscopes (sp) and out dated digital cameras.

lol, that took me way too long to get.

This is from the days when cassette tapes were all the rage!


Woo magnetic storage! Anyone else mildly amused that it is still one of the longest lasting and most reliable forms of archiving still available? (assuming you keep the magnets away)

I'm surprised my 8-track still sounds as good as it does. Hooray for old shite.

well - it is brutally efficient when it comes to massive long term, yet fast and reliable storage. hitachi has long term plans to thermally assist writing and reading of magnetic storage to make smaller and weaker bits that require a laser's heat to become read/writeable

I am waiting for holographic hard drives that hold petabytes of data.

Actually, that is not a floppy. Floppies were 5 and 1/4. That my friend is a diskette

My dad works for IT down at SEMO and they recently bought a new machine for backups that uses 800 GB tapes.