"We have a technical debt that stretches back many decades."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/13402469

"We have a technical debt that stretches back many decades."

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    lol for real. 5.25" were like 360KB. the universal standard by then was 3.5" (1.44 MB) disks and had been for several years. CD-ROMs with 700MB we're all over by 1994.

    the real heads had CD-Rs by 1998 and we're making mix CDs and imaging cracked WaReZ.