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Luxurious push button floppy disk AND MO disk holder (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by HugeNerd@lemmy.ca to c/thrifting_scores@lemmy.ca

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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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[–] 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.