supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agoIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?message-squaremessage-square252fedilinkarrow-up1216arrow-down18
arrow-up1208arrow-down1message-squareIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square252fedilink
minus-squareVindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·16 hours ago Doesn’t look like any piece of technology. It actually does, just not modern technology. It’s a simplified drum memory unit, the predecessor to the hard disk drive.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 hours agoHow is that a predecessor? It’s just the same tech but bigger? (I know this could be said for pretty much anything but still.)
minus-square[object Object]@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoYou’d have your answer if you spent half a minute reading on how the tech worked in the above-linked article.
It actually does, just not modern technology. It’s a simplified drum memory unit, the predecessor to the hard disk drive.
How is that a predecessor? It’s just the same tech but bigger? (I know this could be said for pretty much anything but still.)
You’d have your answer if you spent half a minute reading on how the tech worked in the above-linked article.