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I'm that old (lazysoci.al)
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

They still use reel-to-reel tape drives on mainframes to store data. Just like they did in 1967.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

We had those at my first programming job. At a later job in the 90s one of my minor duties was to swap out the tape cassette for daily backups. It held 8Gb and was about the size of a deck of playing cards. I remember talking with another guy about how amazing it was to put 8 gigabytes in your shirt pocket. Now that's a fraction of a micro SD smaller than my fingernail.

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