A blast from the past.

Who remembers these? Mine has just been recycled under the "New Regime". When looking them up I found this little snippet, by a bloke called Christopher Phin.

"These days, of course, the idea that 100MB is “a lot of data” is pretty preposterous. Shoot H.264 video at 1080p and 60fps for four seconds, such as on an iPhone 6, and you’ve generated a hundred megs of data.
A little over 20 years ago, however, when Iomega introduced the original 100MB Zip disk, that was staggeringly huge for a removable disk. The wildly more common 3.5-inch floppies held 1.4MB. For context, the entry-level PowerBook 150, introduced in the same year, had a 120MB hard disk, and the base configurations of even 1994’s server Macs came with hard disks that were only five times the capacity of the Zip disk."

By that same token ...
How long since ANY version of Windows© would fit on either a Floppy OR a Zip©

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