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		reaperducer on Dec 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info o... They are also tremendously slow When you're only reading 1.44 megs of data, speed isn't that big a deal.

jandrese on Dec 31, 2021 [–]

It has been many years now, but I recall a full floppy dump took on the order of a few minutes to complete. Small data sizes were countered by the incredibly slow floppy drive interface.

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