Hard Drive Icons Through the Ages
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The topic would be fascinating I think: to look at the changes in iconography for persistent storage generally, from the 70s onwards. Someone should curate that, if they haven't already. This, sadly, is not that post.
This had a lot of potential if they had started with windows 3.11 (dunno if earlier had HDD icons, another interesting fact), Mac OS 1, and maybe gnome/kde 1.