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Pretty lame I guess but this is pretty fancy and looks like unused and unopened. It really slowly, smoothly AND silently opens up.

Now to find magneto-optical disks.

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it just... A... Box? Like does it do anything besides you can put floppies into it?

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where you see a simple box, I see practicality and luxury combined.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

With the deluxe color of GREY

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Since it apparently was in its box all this time, it has no yellowing. Now all my vintage computers look like shit.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

That's actually incredible. I used to have stuff that was that grey or white plastic, pre yellowing, and it honestly didn't look that bad. I'm not that old, I swear.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 1 month ago

Holy shit... this takes me back.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s a whopping ~98MB of storage space!

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A small (edit: 3.5") magneto-optical disk was 128M and the biggest was 540M, so we're talking ~4GB to ~19GB. The largest standard floppy capacity was 2.88M so that's 195M. If you include weird stuff like the Panasonic super floppy then you can do 32M on a regular HD floppy, or 240M on super floppy media. Various flopticals also existed, I don't know much about these, I think it was 20M per disk.

[–] Sphks@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I used to use a 5" 1/4 disks storage to store compact discs. I wonder what can fit into these.

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I did that too. Had a folding out cassette that would stand on its own when opened.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

36 magneto-optical disks or 68 floppy discs, or one presumes, many intermediate combinations.