Floppies to the rescue

Well, there’s a blast from the past: Remove safely! Actually, last time I mounted floppies with KDE, I don’t think free storage sizes were indicated in KiB. I wonder why the K in KiB is capitalised, by the way. Kilo’s symbol is a lower case k. Anyway, yes, I’ve bought a floppy drive for my PC. It connects over USB of course, so it’s a bit lighter and smaller than the one I bought last time. Actually, except for this one and that one, all floppy drives I ever owned came with the machines they were built into. Before 1986 and after, I suppose, 2006, very few computers ever came with built-in floppy drives, so if you find yourself outside that time window, you’ll likely have to buy them separately. The reason I’m again putting up with the slowest, smallest and noisiest way of storing data since the cassette tape, is twofold. First, Atari’s hard disks have a bit of a different format (FAT15) when compared to the standard FAT16. My PC, blissfully unaware of exotic file systems such as…

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