Pinephone Multiboot Platform Guide

[Zebulon Walton]

I'm using SD cards to kind of replicate a "multi-boot" environment, even though it's super slow.
But this is because of the very limited storage.
Isn't it sad to consider 32 GB nowadays to be very limited storage, while 2 decades ago it would have been considered massive?

Indeed. When I started working in the computer industry in the late 1970s, NOBODY had that kind of storage unless maybe you were the CIA and then it would take a good chunk of a large building to hold it and an electrical substation to provide the power. A "hard drive" at that time was about the size of a washing machine. In this photo the black device on the right is a DEC RP04 disk drive. It weighed about 500 pounds and held about 92 MB.