That's alot of floppies...

Ever stop to think how many floppy discs a PS3 game would take?
If we still used those things we'd need to live in a warehouse

How we went from 100 K storage mediums to Terabyte hard drives in a period of 20 years is kind of mind blowing when you stop to think about it. Or that SD Cards which are smaller than floppy drives can be up to 32 GB.

Crazy

 

Hello, and welcome to yesterday.

 

However it would be likely that the medium would have evovled, back in the late 90s Imation made the LS-240 discs which could store 240MB so you could store 25gb in just over 106 discs. Although your arm would fall off before you got a chance to insert disc 93.

Chances are that if there was no cheap flash memory or cd-rw then we would have floppies that would be in the low gigabyte range. Magnetic tapes are still uses for back ups with current digital tapes being able to store terrabytes of data. It would have been nice if bubble memory was still worked on if flash memory didn't exist, turn on iphone, get a please wait warming up timer.

Still you are ignoring the fact that CDs were around at least in a working format by the late 70s so 600mb storage would not have been too far away. Also if you look what a 5mb winchester disc cost in the early 80s and compare the cost per megabyte over the years you notice it is a fairly linear curve on a log scale.

 

This is making me think back to when operating systems were on a series of floppies.

...4 more floppies and hello Windows 95!

 

Can you imagine how many miles of mercury delay lines it would take to store a PS3 game? Probably enough to stretch to Neptune and back a few times.

 

Damn, i remember when 100mb Zip Disks were enough for my backups.

 

Damn, I remember when I was playing awesome games using just approx. 100KB of disk space.

 

when i was a lad, 100k discs were luxury i tell you, we 'ad to connect tape recorder to computer and load up 16k games, waiting so long that you 'ad to make a cuppa to pass time of day. Then we 'ad to sit down and enjoy it.

 

Now there's a trip down memory lane! I think I haven't heard that mentioned for 15 years maybe

 

The Amiga version of Monkey Island 2 took up like 14 720k Amiga disks, fun

 

That reminds me, maybe I should sell my copy of "The Savage Empire" before 5.25 inch drives start going out of style, whaddya think?

I recall backing up the huge box of floppies with all my favorite games on them onto a single CD-R... Which subsequently broke a few days later (of course after I threw out the floppies). :dammit:

Anyone remember the scams that came up around the time of the first consumer CD-R writers, claiming they could erase and then write on pressed CDs? Only way to believe that bs was because people were used to doing exactly that with floppies...

 

And there was me thinking this was about some failed gangbang.

 

And you still didn't answer the question goh...

For a 25GB game it would take 17858 1.4MB 3.5" disks to store

Actually the HDD killed bubble mem back when 16MB of flash (RAM) was more expensive than the rest of the parts in a computer.

What flash killed was the microdrive, early last decade it seemed small portable HDDs were the media of the future.

 

and Kids now complain about 10 Second load times. My Old Monochrome Radioshack computer ran nothing but tapes. There was a Cart slot but we had only 1 cart and I don't even remember what it was.

 

I back up all of my games on secure mediums that will last longer than crappy optic discs. Thats why I've been absent for some time.
Ive spent the last three months backing up my 360 collection on punchcards.

 

I'm assuming you only own the one 360 game then?....which one is it btw?:lol:

 

Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 :/

 

Man I remember when AOL switched from Disk to CDs. It was a depressing sight as they went from free supply of disk to cup coasters and Frisbee. =(

 

:lol:

 

I'm surprised to learn Tape Drives are still used

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTFS