Comment by Repulsive-Neat6776 on 09/03/2025 at 19:46 UTC

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I always liked the little "floppy disc" things. Like, they had the concept of data storage, but it didn't occur to them that, in the future, a spaceship computer could have the internal capacity necessary without the need to carry floppy discs or flash drives or whatever equivalent they could think of in the 60s.

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Comment by Jim_skywalker at 10/03/2025 at 03:41 UTC

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Well in some ways, those thingies might have been the predecessor to isolinier chips.