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Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate (www.vice.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I too, am old.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm older than that but didn't want to self report. the first hard disk i remember my father buying was 40mb.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I remember renting a game, and it was on a high density 5.25" inch floppy at a whopping 1.2MB; but or family computer only had a standard density 5.25".

So we went to the neighbors house, who was one of the first computer nerds (I'm not sure he's still alive now), who copied the game to a 3.5" high density 1.44MB disk, then we returned the rental because we couldn't play it on the 1.2 MB HD 5.25" floppy.

.... And that was the first time I was party to piracy.