I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 208. Here are my solutions to them.
1: Over 25 gigs burned with a blue laser.
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Blu-ray (disc)
Over 25 gigs (available in capacities of 25-128 GB) burned with a blue laser (they are, hence the Blu-). Although not too popular, they are the highest-capacity archival storage generally available now.
2: A hundred megs or more, but could be nothing, a fastener or archive.
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Zip (drive)
A hundred megs or more (available in 100-750 MB capacities), but could be nothing (zip), a (zip) fastener or archive (a Zip archive). Iomega’s hugely popular removable storage between 1994-2004 could suffer ‘the click of death’.
3: Grew from five megs to over a gig in Simon’s shortened search.
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SyQuest (drive)
Grew from five megs to over a gig (originally 5 MB, the last model accommodated 4.7 GB) in Simon’s shortened (Sy-) search (quest). Highly successful removable hard disk cartridges between 1982-2003.
The common factor
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They’re all types of removable storage.
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.
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