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We talking 800k floppies or “high density” 1.44MB floppies?
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'Tis why I referred to the 3.5 disks as hard disks. The 5.25’s were the real floppy disks indeed.
The hard part would be finding a floppy drive.
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Oof, I don’t miss that sound nor the sound of the house phone ringing in the middle of my 5 megabyte download. Smh.
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Don’t tell anyone, but I think I still have a few 
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I remember when they were all the rage. I still have about 20 of them sitting in a case. Bunch of jaz discs too. I have to sift through them some day.
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~71100 Based on 1.44MB disks at 711 per gig and the specs requiring 100GB of space. Probably at least one more for the installer too…
Holy Hollerith, Batman!
For you youngsters out there, each card is a single line of code or a single data statement.
There are no longer enough forests in North America to produce enough paper to make enough punch cards for a copy of World of Warcraft.
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