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While 20GB would indeed require 55,556 360k floppy disks, a 32GB micro-SD card has a volume of about 164mm^3.

I still think of a megabyte as a lot of memory at some level because it is and that was enough to run approximately every DOS game including the first Civilization...the new one requires a minimum of 16GB RAM, so about the same rate of growth in requirements.




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