• Doorknob@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    When I was young, I was not allowed to install anything on the family PC whatsoever. I had a 100MB Zip disk and was told anything that I wanted to keep, I could keep on there. That disk got a big workout. Had Duke 3D and the Half-Life Uplink demo on there, plus about 30MB to spare! Great days man.

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      8 hours ago

      Man I was jelly green over classmates that could afford zip drives. They’d bring it to school retiring computer class, whip it out, both showing off and fake-lamenting that oh they didn’t know the school didn’t have zip drives.

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        7 hours ago

        Zip drives filled such a small tech window between floppies & CD-Rs.

        I was the ubernerd with the Zip 250, lol