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    Image of jayhawk11 owns property now!!! jayhawk11 owns property now!!!
    12/14/09

    In reply to Seagate's Momentus Thin Drive is the World's Thinnest 2.5" Netbook Drive
    I'll be waiting for some dumbass to throw this in their regular laptop and start bitching about vibration/rattling.
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    Image of FalconFour FalconFour
    12/14/09

    @jayhawk11 owns property now!!!: Hello, my name is dumbass. I put thin laptop hard drives in spaces made for larger ones, and use screws to screw them down so they don't vibrate/rattle. I'm from 2000 when some still-usable laptops used thicker hard drives that needed to be upgraded to thinner ones. I seem to be doing just fine, thank you for the concern!
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    Image of Dallifornia Dallifornia
    12/14/09

    In reply to Seagate's Momentus Thin Drive is the World's Thinnest 2.5" Netbook Drive
    Thinnest. 2.5". As in, thinner than other 2.5" drives? Yet it's a 2.5" drive.
    Does. Not. Compute.
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment Dallifornia was starred Dallifornia was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/14/09

    @Dallifornia: Width != Thickness.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/14/09

    @Dallifornia: Your laptop is HUGE
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    Image of Dallifornia Dallifornia
    12/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: at 10 lbs, yes.
    I always assumed that, since desktops are bigger and tend to use 3.5" drives... it was referring to height.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/14/09

    @Dallifornia: 10? I'll bet my Inspiron beats it by a good 50. The Club Sandwich of laptops.
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    Image of Dallifornia Dallifornia
    12/14/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I opted out of the double turkey option; was going to install it myself, but I am too lazy. Shitty BLT.
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    Image of DaSmith DaSmith
    11/30/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    This is not accurate at all. It is full of mistakes. For example look at the Dual Layer DVD, Blu-ray, DL Bluray and Flash drive of the data section are in red squares, while they should be with green ones. The 4000 photos on the microSD is also 1600 according to the number and type of blocks next to it, probably a lot other mistakes exist but I'm kinda lazy to check them all.
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    whiteflea promoted this comment DaSmith was starred DaSmith was unstarred
    Image of Scott Crawford Scott Crawford
    11/29/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Good and amusing but as others point out, still room for improvement. Surely film came before the photo....and there were more before the flloppy....starting with punchcards and magnetic reels, tapes. Still, good effort though!
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! approved this comment Scott Crawford was starred Scott Crawford was unstarred
    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11/29/09

    @Scott Crawford: But punchcards were not really an storage device, but input methods.
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    11/29/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: Actually, they were both.
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    Image of fate47 - Meh. fate47 - Meh.
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Teehee! I had forgotten all about Jazz drives!
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    Image of Theophilus P. Wildebeeste Theophilus P. Wildebeeste
    11/28/09

    @fate47 - Meh.: I had one, too volatile, lost my entire pr0n collection to it.

    That took a lot of getting, being dial-up an' all.
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    Image of Reavyn29 Reavyn29
    11/29/09

    @#c17158117:Sneaking up in the middle of the night covering up the modem speakers so no one heard you log on?
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment Edited by Reavyn29 at 11/29/09 12:51 AM Reavyn29 was starred Reavyn29 was unstarred
    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11/29/09

    @Reavyn29: Those were the good times.
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    Image of denisnossevitch denisnossevitch
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    WTF is a wax cylinder? Is that that thing they use as candles in church?
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    lostarchitect promoted this comment denisnossevitch was starred denisnossevitch was unstarred
    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    11/28/09

    @denisnossevitch: I'm assuming you're kidding.. but just in case:
    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of denisnossevitch denisnossevitch
    11/29/09

    @lostarchitect: Wow that wiki changed my life. They had technology back in 1888?!
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    he missed out C90 tapes and C120's with cassette tapes.. C60's were hardly used...
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    11/29/09

    @KhaiJB: They were too. Longer cassettes got eaten more often, and the C-60s were dirt cheap.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    11/29/09

    @KhaiJB: *shrug* going by where I lived.. C90's and 120's sold more than the C60's. tho mainly C90's.
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    Image of RipRapRob RipRapRob
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    The constant change of units makes the chart much less informative than it could have been.

    The same goes for using the same color for a minute of music, one photo (what size?) and one MB.

    Plus the size of the Flash-drive compared to ... is that a CD, DVD or Blu-ray? One or two layers?

    And at first glance it looks like a 2.5" 500GB HD only contains 50 GB. Same for 3.5" 2TB HD.

    All because the 'headers' for these suddenly is the size of each unit/colored square, and not the to total capacity, as it is on the rest of the chart.

    It's not enough to make a chart that looks nice. It has to present the information in a way that makes more sense than just listing the data.
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    lostarchitect promoted this comment RipRapRob was starred RipRapRob was unstarred
    Image of os_2 os_2
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    ah.. 5 1/4" floopies, I remember punching holes on other side so I can use the backside for storage. It seems like it was yesterday.
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    Curves promoted this comment os_2 was starred os_2 was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    11/28/09

    @os_2: I just cleaned out my "tech and media" closet and found a set of like six 5.25" install disks for for some old software.

    Obviously, I need to clean out that closet more often.
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    Image of bubbagrump bubbagrump
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Syquest drives? tape drives? it's nice but not very complete.
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    dingus promoted this comment bubbagrump was starred bubbagrump was unstarred
    Image of dingus dingus
    11/28/09

    @bubbagrump: No 9 tracks, disk packs, or punch cards. Clearly the guy who made this had his first computer come in a cow-patterned box.
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    Image of Kingofhearts589 Kingofhearts589
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Color fail on the Data Storage section. Otherwise, great chart.
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    Image of BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    I store everything in my shed. Does that count?
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    Image of ploopsy ploopsy
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    Long story short.

    Anything that you send back in time will blow the recipients minds.
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    PN - gooapplesoft promoted this comment ploopsy was starred ploopsy was unstarred
    Image of The Dude The Dude
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    back when we used floppies we had to be much more selective about what we were going to save. i, too, like that we can store anything and everything we'd ever need to, however i still think there was something to be said for just saving the essentials (even without this crazy amount of personal storage we'd still have ways of accessing any information we'd need; it just wouldn't be on our personal machines). i'll go so far as to say that massive personal data storage capabilities (like multi-terabyte hds) are the reason cloud computing is still only in its infancy.
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    Image of adaorardor adaorardor
    11/28/09

    @back_at_it: hopefully it stays in its infancy. basically, fuck cloud computing.
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    Image of witeowl witeowl
    11/28/09

    @adaorardor: Care to elaborate?
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    something_unique_and_descriptive promoted this comment witeowl was starred witeowl was unstarred
    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    11/29/09

    @witeowl: Cloud computing sounds great to everyone who lives in a big developed area. But for those of us out in the sticks who have to deal with spotty wireless coverage, no land-based options for broadband, and the data caps of satellite the idea of relying on a data connection for our computing isn't the most pleasant prospect.

    Then you've got the issue of your data being subject to someone else' mistakes. See the recent Sidekick debacle for a textbook example of why people want to avoid it.
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    Image of MrToblerone MrToblerone
    11/28/09

    In reply to Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
    I don't know, I still miss them big old 5.25" floppy discs. They felt so futuristic! :D
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    AmphetamineCrown promoted this comment Edited by MrToblerone at 11/28/09 6:08 PM MrToblerone was starred MrToblerone was unstarred
    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    11/28/09

    @MrToblerone: They were futuristic when you started off with 8" floppy discs...
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    Image of Darren Bell Darren Bell
    11/28/09

    @AmphetamineCrown: Winchester Disk packs, now that was the future:

    I've still got a copy of Windows 2.0 on 5.25" floppies :)
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    dingus approved this comment Darren Bell was starred Darren Bell was unstarred
    Image of dingus dingus
    11/28/09

    @Darren Bell: You haven't experienced Spacewar! until you've played it off the original paper tape.
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