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@NanoRaptor The micro sd to standard sd card adapters should have always been printed like that ;)
@billgoats I do have one! UV inkjet printer joy.

@NanoRaptor @billgoats those should just be a commercial item, together with microSD cards as well (I know there are stickers, I need to print some)

really wished for a wrigley gum MemoryStick back in the day

the MemoryStick is still my favourite human friendly form factor, thin, but easy to hold and not likely to be lost

@helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats

I'm sad we never got a truly ubiquitous portable storage format to replace floppy disks.

CD-RW?s and DVD[+-]RW?s (and DVD-RAMs) kinda-sorta did for a while, but they were never as flexible as floppies, zips, or flash drives.

Then flash drives reigned supreme, but using them was always a little awkward, like:

10 ATTEMPT INSERT 20 FLIP DEVICE 30 GOTO 10

...and there never was a standard form factor, nor was there ever the sense of having a "drive" that you plugged into, but just a spare USB port.

I never had an actual memory stick, nor loved the SONY proprietariness and vendor lock-in, but the form factor was quite nice.

I [o]pined on that subject [here] ;)

I miss the days of ubiquitous portable data storage

@rl_dane @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats you don't need to flip a floppy 3 times until you get the data you wanted?
@kabel42 @rl_dane @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats you cannot flip 3Β½β€³ floppies at all
@mirabilos @rl_dane @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats those are nearly sqare, you can flip them in soo many ways and then wonder why they don't fit
@kabel42 @rl_dane @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats … just insert it in the obvious, right direction, which is also shown on the box (and on the sleeve, for 5ΒΌβ€³ floppies)

@mirabilos @kabel42 @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats

Never saw it myself, but I heard stories of people supposedly folding 5 1/4" floppies in half to insert into their new computers with 3 1/2" drives. XD

@rl_dane @kabel42 @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats aieee!

Thank the goddess I started with 9 cm floppies.

@mirabilos @kabel42 @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats

There were 8" / 20cm floppies, too, but I never had one of those.

Saw them in the movie #WarGames, and also saw some in use at my dad's uni back in the early 90s.

@rl_dane @mirabilos @kabel42 @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats somewhere in my dungeon, I have a few of them. Just to show off and not actual using

@zwangseinweisung @mirabilos @kabel42 @helle @NanoRaptor @billgoats

I had a single punch card in my possession at some point. I'm bummed I no longer know where it is.

@rl_dane I wouldn't believe such stories. I'd think anyone capable of using them AT ALL would know better.

@wesdym

It's definitely an outlier on the stupidity scale, but I wouldn't discount it out of hand. XD