supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days agoIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?message-squaremessage-square298fedilinkarrow-up1255arrow-down19
arrow-up1246arrow-down1message-squareIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square298fedilink
minus-squareVindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·7 days ago Doesn’t look like any piece of technology. It actually does, just not modern technology. It’s a simplified drum memory unit, the predecessor to the hard disk drive.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 days agoHow is that a predecessor? It’s just the same tech but bigger? (I know this could be said for pretty much anything but still.)
minus-square[object Object]@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days agoYou’d have your answer if you spent half a minute reading on how the tech worked in the above-linked article.
It actually does, just not modern technology. It’s a simplified drum memory unit, the predecessor to the hard disk drive.
How is that a predecessor? It’s just the same tech but bigger? (I know this could be said for pretty much anything but still.)
You’d have your answer if you spent half a minute reading on how the tech worked in the above-linked article.