argv minus one<p>I also remember backing up onto <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/floppy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floppy</span></a> disks back in the day, but this has always been rather impractical.</p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IBMPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBMPC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/XT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XT</span></a> had a 10MB <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HDD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HDD</span></a> and 360kB FDD, so with a 2:1 compression ratio, you'd need 15 disks to back the machine up.</p><p>This didn't change much in the early '90s. You had a 1440kB FDD, but you also had a 40MB HDD, so you'd need 14 floppies to back it up.</p><p>The introduction of USB HDDs, especially compact bus-powered ones, has *greatly* improved the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/backup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>backup</span></a> situation.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>