• BigFig@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    And then you get it all off the floppy’s only to realize 10% of it is corrupted

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        5 months ago

        And that’s when you learned about parity files…

        When par2 came out that was huge for me. Didn’t use floppies anymore, but the ability to only download the required amount of parity blocks was great.