Re: When Is A Game Old?

On 4/24/2024 4:25 PM, Justisaur wrote:

On 4/23/2024 10:44 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:30:06 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
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I can't say I /miss/ floppy disks, but I do miss the form factor.
There was something very reassuring about those slender cassettes
(especially 3.5" disks); a solidity and presence that said, "Yes, I am
here holding your data". Slotting the disk into the drive and getting
that reassuring 'clunk' was quite satisfying too. Smaller form-factors
- like thumb-drives - never quite recaptured that. I think it's why I
loved ZIP disks (and its competitors, like LS120 super-floppies) so
much.

 
At least they were much harder to lose than the numerous USB thumb
drives I've got now, and all fit in the same container the same way.
 

it also was harder to put them in the wrong way round more than once,
unlike usb drives which you have to try in at least three different ways
until they work as they should