• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    I always thought zip drives were another term for flash drives because so many people just used the terms interchangably.

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      3 months ago

      Reminds me of how everyone is now misusing the term “ROM” to mean “Storage” when it actually means “Read-Only Memory”. Drives me nuts every time I see it in advertising.

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        3 months ago

        It’s funny to me that things like EEPROM are considered ROM. Like, ok, I can write to it? Read only, huh?