supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 21 hours agoIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?message-squaremessage-square198fedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down14
arrow-up1175arrow-down1message-squareIf you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 21 hours agomessage-square198fedilink
minus-squareJordanZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·7 hours agoMy vote is just a cylinder. It’s been used for the hard drive activity light for decades already so shouldn’t be too much of a leap. Doesn’t look like any piece of technology.
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 minutes ago Doesn’t look like any piece of technology. I think it does look like an idealised stack of spinning magnetic disks. At least that’s what I have always read it as.
minus-squareVindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 hours ago Doesn’t look like any piece of technology. It actually does, just not modern technology. It’s a simplified drum memory unit, the predecessor to the hard disk drive.
minus-squaretheneverfox@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 hours agoThat’s already the symbol of a data store, so if you hit it I’d expect it to bring up the connection configuration
minus-squareTeddE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·5 hours agoWhat if we coupled the cylinder symbol with a ‘going to’ arrow ⤵️ above it?
minus-squarehddsx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 hours agoWhat’s a hard drive? Is that like iCloud or something?
minus-square𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 hours agoIt’s an ancient device that replicates the cloud on your computer
My vote is just a cylinder. It’s been used for the hard drive activity light for decades already so shouldn’t be too much of a leap. Doesn’t look like any piece of technology.
I think it does look like an idealised stack of spinning magnetic disks. At least that’s what I have always read it as.
It actually does, just not modern technology. It’s a simplified drum memory unit, the predecessor to the hard disk drive.
That’s already the symbol of a data store, so if you hit it I’d expect it to bring up the connection configuration
What if we coupled the cylinder symbol with a ‘going to’ arrow ⤵️ above it?
What’s a hard drive? Is that like iCloud or something?
It’s an ancient device that replicates the cloud on your computer