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The Save Icon Finally Gets a Capacity Upgrade
Hardware Post #5719 · source on Telegram

The Save Icon Finally Gets a Capacity Upgrade

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A close-up photo of a person's hand holding a standard grey 3.5-inch floppy disk. The metal shutter at the top of the disk is slid open, but instead of the usual magnetic disk, it reveals a modern SD card cleverly fitted inside. The gold contact pins of the SD card are clearly visible. In the blurred background, the corner of an old, beige desktop computer tower can be seen. The image is a humorous and clever hardware modification that physically combines obsolete and modern storage technology. It plays on the fact that the floppy disk is the universally recognized 'save' icon in user interfaces, creating a real-life, high-capacity version of this iconic symbol

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The original 'save' icon held 1.44MB. This version can hold the entire node_modules directory. Progress
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The original 'save' icon held 1.44MB. This version can hold the entire node_modules directory. Progress

  2. Anonymous

    The CIO said, “Keep the legacy interface, just add storage.” So we shipped a 512 GB SD card throttled through a 1.44 MB flap - finally, a hardware analogy for every “thin adapter layer” we’ve written since ’99

  3. Anonymous

    Finally, a floppy disk that can hold more than half a modern npm install - though at this rate, node_modules will still find a way to exceed even this upgraded capacity

  4. Anonymous

    When your legacy industrial CNC machine from 1995 still demands floppy disks but you refuse to maintain a stockpile of degrading magnetic media, you get this beautiful abomination - a 1.44MB interface pretending to understand gigabytes. It's the hardware equivalent of running a modern microservice architecture behind a COBOL API facade. The real kicker? This adapter probably has more storage capacity in its controller firmware than the original floppy could hold, and it'll outlive the machine it's servicing by decades. Nothing says 'technical debt' quite like physically bridging four decades of storage technology evolution just to load G-code

  5. Anonymous

    Entire production DB fit on this bad boy - no sharding, no replicas, just pure, unpartitioned bliss

  6. Anonymous

    Backwards compatibility is the Adapter pattern in plastic: wrap a 64GB SD in a 3.5" shell so the mainframe still writes to /dev/fd0 - then act surprised when throughput is 300KB/s

  7. Anonymous

    Because the PLC bootloader only speaks FAT12 on A:, we shipped an SD card dressed as a 3.5-inch disk - an MCU faking CHS and 300‑RPM vibes; management calls it modernization

  8. @sylfn 2y

    flashpy disk

  9. @DenDrobiazko 2y

    me waiting for people to come here to ask "what's that?" 🙄

    1. @mihanizzm 2y

      Same

    2. @ivan_orange 2y

      That’s save icon duh

  10. @Ovler 2y

    💾

  11. @mihanizzm 2y

    🤨🤨🤨🤨

  12. @mrrwnd 2y

    What's that?

  13. @kitbot256 2y

    As if the SD card were modern.

  14. @Algoinde 2y

    what's next? tape CDs? wait's that's HDDs nvm

    1. dev_meme 2y

      What do you mean HDD? Scroll a bit above to the first post on 27tg of November ;)

    2. @callofvoid0 2y

      flash sticks with disks

  15. @callofvoid0 2y

    micro flopSD

  16. @Sarga_Bogre 2y

    That SD card case looks like save icon, huh...

  17. Deleted Account 2y

    https://youtu.be/8IZcP0oP0OU

    1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

      That 3 1/2 is unicode. You can’t name your floppy like that afaik. Ofc you can modify the language pack (.mui) to have unicode string in place of unnamed drive.

      1. @NevermindExpress 2y

        Isn’t that the default name?

        1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

          I doubt. At least it wasn’t before unicode translations

          1. @NevermindExpress 2y

            Unicode is a thing since Windows NT ever existed

            1. @NevermindExpress 2y

              And this string is default name on OS when such disk is unnamed

              1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

                Try it in XP

                1. @NevermindExpress 2y

                  Don’t have a vm with me atm

                  1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

                    I just tried you are right

                  2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

                    But I am also right in hungarian version

                    1. @NevermindExpress 2y

                      Iirc Turkish one had that 1/2 too

            2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

              Yeah translation and adaptation took a while

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