>> The machine was a cube, not a slab, and when I got it had a
>> floptical, which I approximately never used.
> I'm being pedantic, I'll admit, but [...]

Okay, "what at the time I heard commonly spoken of as a floptical".
Yes, I'm talking about the big (six inch?) things that stored about a
quarter gig.

And how things have changed.  At the time that quarter gig was a _lot_
of space.  I knew someone who kept his (not-a-)floptical mounted
routinely in order to have lots of spare space kicking around.

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