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The strangest choice is (imho) Floppy Disk. That is so last century!

If we want to prove that we know history, we should use punch cards instead - or the Rosetta stone ;-)

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Re^2: The best object to provide scale on a photo showing a small object is:
by fbicknel (Beadle) on Mar 04, 2011 at 16:47 UTC
    Agreed... and whether to use an 8" floppy or a 5-1/4" floppy would be impossible to decide.
Re^2: The best object to provide scale on a photo showing a small object is:
by Illuminatus (Curate) on Mar 09, 2011 at 16:05 UTC
    Ummm, thimbles were found in the ruins of Pompeii. No floppies, as far as I know, but I *think* they found a cassette in what was left of a tape-deck attached to a Radio-Shack TRS-80...

    fnord