Anthropomorphic Rooster, Floppies & Moore’s Law

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What does a stack of 3.5 inch floppy diskettes and Foghorn Leghorn have to do with each other? Nothing other than floppies are about as useful these days as our sign is in keeping people from bothering us in the IT Dept. But after I had to drag the old, dusty stack of floppies out of the server room for WCW to extract some old CAD files from, I realized that in relative terms, a cartoon of an anthropomorphic rooster and that set of floppy diskettes were about the same age. Foghorn Leghorn made his debut in 1946, making him 67 years old. 3.5 inch floppy diskettes were first introduced in 1982, which makes them 32 years old, but we have to apply Moore’s Law (processor speeds double every two years) to anything associated with computers, so in computer years, the floppies are 64 years old, making them and Foghorn Leghorn virtual cohorts.

2 thoughts on “Anthropomorphic Rooster, Floppies & Moore’s Law

    • Microsoft originally produced MS Office for the Mac long before they introduced Windows. I remember the last MS Office suite had around 30 installation diskettes, and it took forever to install switching out all those diskettes.

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