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		hkpack 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Booting from a vinyl record (2020) Stepper motors were last used for HDDs with the capacity in megabytes.

afandian 2 days ago [–]

I was thinking 5¼ floppies actually. But the same applies to the voice coils in newer hdds.

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