Venkatesh Rao@vgrPoll: What was the first removable, rewritable digital storage medium you used?Tape22.7%5.25” floppy40.9%3.5” floppy30.1%USB stick6.3%810 votes·Final results3:59 AM · Oct 28, 20185 Retweets2 Quote Tweets4 Likes
Stephan Somogyi@thinkpanzer·Oct 28, 2018Replying to @vgrYou forgot 8" floppy, inbetween tape and 5.25.11
Mike Bull - Jedobaptist@MrBully67·Oct 28, 2018Replying to @vgrYou missed out 88MB Syquest removable hard drives, and 100MB Zip disks. Those were what we professionals used when floppy disks were not enough.
mtraven@mtraven·Oct 28, 2018Replying to @vgrPah you kids http://ibmcollectable.com/gallery/album126/3330_pack…1
S Ravichandran@iid_sp·Oct 28, 2018Replying to @vgr and @jackerhackIf only you had included non-rewritable paper tape and punched cards 😞1
Frideswyth@frideswyth·Oct 28, 2018Replying to @vgr3.5, but between that and usb I used re-writable CDs1
Hal Morris@HalMorris3·Oct 28, 2018Replying to @vgrA removable 2 megabyte hard disk the size of a large serving platter for a pdp-11.
Simon Pearce@SimonPearceLive·Oct 28, 2018Replying to @vgrTape: because I’m as old as you are @vgr remember that sound it would make? Remember when the 5.25 disk seemed@impossibly futuristic? Or when the 3.5 seemed to fix the problem of disks being stupidly fragile?1