supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month 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-square293linkfedilinkarrow-up1259arrow-down19
arrow-up1250arrow-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 month agomessage-square293linkfedilink
minus-squareyoungalfred@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up109arrow-down3·1 month agoYou can’t just jump to the future, so use this one for the next decade:
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 month ago… but platter drives are old hat, SSDs are the new hotness?
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·1 month agoCan’t skip a generation, gotta go from the floppy disk icon to the HDD icon for a while first.
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoMeh, just a hard floppy. Although I really did appreciate my Zip 100 drive for that storage space before writable CDs came along.
minus-squarePsythik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·1 month agoWell it’s not a very good one.
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 month agoHard drives pre-dated floppy discs by 15 years.
minus-squareKokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoI bow to thy argumentation. This be-eth the way
You can’t just jump to the future, so use this one for the next decade:
… but platter drives are old hat, SSDs are the new hotness?
Can’t skip a generation, gotta go from the floppy disk icon to the HDD icon for a while first.
Forgot about Zip drives.
Meh, just a hard floppy. Although I really did appreciate my Zip 100 drive for that storage space before writable CDs came along.
That’s the joke.
But hard drives came first.
Well it’s not a very good one.
Isnt this just a hdd platter?
Oh wait im dumb its a 75 record
Hard drives pre-dated floppy discs by 15 years.
I bow to thy argumentation. This be-eth the way