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He's coming for your floppy: Linus Torvalds is killing off support for legacy disk drive tech

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C64

For the C64, the Commodore 1541 floppy drive replaced the Datasette. It was more expensive than the computer itself, of course. Then again, it opened a new universe. Games that reloaded data were suddenly possible. On a computer with very limited memory, this was a giant step.

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