@jordyd hehe you said disk

@lopsigon big disks are in these days

@jordyd I like small dense disks

@lopsigon I hear the Romans did as well

@jordyd and fast disks

@jordyd
* unbridled giggling *

@lopsigon hard disks

@lopsigon somehow this wasn’t the first one I thought of and I’m ashamed

@jordyd floppy disks

@lopsigon they come in 3 1/2 in, 5 1/4 in, and 8 in

@lopsigon I’ve heard of 8 in but I’ve never actually seen one, sounds unwieldy tbh

@jordyd eyy that's like the size of a sheet of paper

@lopsigon yeah, hopefully not as thin tho

@jordyd death by a thousand floppy cuts

@jordyd I meant considering back when it first came onto the scene. I wasn't alive, but I hear the ram, etc was NOT cheap

@kimdanes they called it
Eight
Megabytes
And
Constantly
Swapping

or so I’m told

@jordyd googled it and found a salt mine

@kimdanes “Elsewhere Maybe Alternative Civilizations Survive” is my favorite

@jordyd it's originally a full email correspondence from the 80s: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnuemacs.acro.exp.html

@kimdanes beautiful