JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited September 2008
I don't have a floppy, but every time I reinstall windows an A: drive shows up in My Computer and I have to go disable it in the device manager. It's not a huge hassle, but it still pisses me off. What is this, the Dark Ages?
Anyone remember APS cameras? They were supposed to be really easy to deal with loading the film and you could take different shaped photographs with them and other random shit - I bought one during the few years that they lasted and have never been arsed to buy a replacement. Trying to find places that develop the film is becoming increasingly difficult.
Pretty similar to zip disks. Made to replace floppies/35mm, were swiftly forgotten with the creation of flash drives/digital cameras and were never really widely accepted as substitutes for the old even before they were overtaken by new technology.
I've seen exactly one APS thing
Someone brought it in to Rite Aid and was indignant when I was like "we don't have the equipment for that"
Dude you're bringing in obsolete tech
The hell did you think would happen
I used to have a Jazz Drive. It was superior to Zip.
Ditto
You're a classy fuck.
I had the Bernoulli, what now?!
Wow, this conversation has just caused memories to come bubbling up of Thanksgiving dinner at my friend's house. Two of his uncles got into a heated debate over the relative merits of Jazz drives and Zip drives. I didn't realize it before, but I'm pretty sure that my long-term loyalty to Zip format stems from the fact that the uncle arguing for Jazz was a fat annoying bastard.
I used to have a Jazz Drive. It was superior to Zip.
Ditto
You're a classy fuck.
I had the Bernoulli, what now?!
Wow, this conversation has just caused memories to come bubbling up of Thanksgiving dinner at my friend's house. Two of his uncles got into a heated debate over the relative merits of Jazz drives and Zip drives. I didn't realize it before, but I'm pretty sure that my long-term loyalty to Zip format stems from the fact that the uncle arguing for Jazz was a fat annoying bastard.
In all honesty, ditto was the best thing to happen to tape backups.
bowen on
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
No indication of capacities but I would imagine it goes from 'not a lot' for the massive pre-historic drive up to 'possibly a fuckton' for the 3.5" and 2.5" drives then to something like 'a reasonable amount' for both of the teeny tiny drives.
To be fair, they were an awesome alternative to CDs size-wise. I'm sure it would've become a lot more popular were users not forced to use that shitty shitty Sony program to put music on them.
To be fair, they were an awesome alternative to CDs size-wise. I'm sure it would've become a lot more popular were users not forced to use that shitty shitty Sony program to put music on them.
I totally sold mine for 80% original price when market value was far, far below. Stupid hillbilly.
I have a minidisc player / recorder from before they had the PC link facility. To put music on it you have to actually record stuff onto it. At single speed.
I have a minidisc player / recorder from before they had the PC link facility. To put music on it you have to actually record stuff onto it. At single speed.
Hardcore old school.
I totally had to do that. It was like the future of making mix tapes.
Does anyone still have a floppy drive in their computer? I don't.
I do, and I got this computer in January
Is it full of dust and shame?
I have a floppy drive. It cost like maybe 3 dollars to add it into my machine when I was customizing it and I thought "hell, why not?"
Then I found out all my old floppy disks had erased over the decade or so that they've been sitting behind my books on my bookshelf.
I remember saving my first custom-created Warcraft 2 maps onto floppies with my brother as well as all the stories I used to write up in Microsoft Works (before it just became Word).
i hate it
the case on my new pc only came with one sata power plug
i didnt know there was a different type of plug needed
so even after buying all this new shit i still had to rip out an ide cd drive from an old computer so that i could install windows onto the new hard drive that occupied the only available sata power port
i got a couple of converter things but the inside of my case is this huge mess of wires
most of it is about 20 spare power plugs and they are all the same type of old white plug
im not sure exactly what a raid is or what the benefits are
as i understand it, its something to do with combining a few drives so they are treated as one
that sounds like a dumb silly idea
i have a floppy drive on my computer. i can't remember ever using it. i haven't even seen a floppy in years.
(my computer is a six year old dell)
I was helping to measure out a building last year with the company I worked for. In one of the offices was one of those plastic rolodex-things filled with floppy disks. Right up at the front was a MS DOS install disk.
It never occurred to me that you could buy physical copies of MS DOS.
Air: you can easily mirror drives together. One fails, you can run off the other while you swap the bad drive.
what
so one hard drive fails
but you have backed it up
so you can replace it while still using the backup?
which sounds like if i hooked up an external drive and did some ctrl c ctrl v i could basically do the same thing?
it may sound like im just shooting things down but i would like to know if theres really much use in these raid things
i mean i had 3 external drives hooked to my laptop
now i have one hooked to my new pc and all the 3 stock hdd bays filled up
so a useful way to handle things might be worth looking into
it may sound like im just shooting things down but i would like to know if theres really much use in these raid things
i mean i had 3 external drives hooked to my laptop
now i have one hooked to my new pc and all the 3 stock hdd bays filled up
so a useful way to handle things might be worth looking into
As far as I know raid can be useful for gaming. You can set it up so your computer writes to two hard drives instead of one and reads off of both simultaneously, pretty much just increasing your read times which can speed things up in game quite a bit.
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I do, and I got this computer in January
I did until they sorted out the stupid SATA integration and you still needed a floppy to install windows.
Tall-Paul MIPsDroid
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
Is it full of dust and shame?
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
I've seen exactly one APS thing
Someone brought it in to Rite Aid and was indignant when I was like "we don't have the equipment for that"
Dude you're bringing in obsolete tech
The hell did you think would happen
wow, is it really the 1990s?
That's actually pretty awesome. Would've been a lifesaver back in the day.
Ditto
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
OH MAN I REMEMBER THOSE THINGS
You're a classy fuck.
I had the Bernoulli, what now?!
Wow, this conversation has just caused memories to come bubbling up of Thanksgiving dinner at my friend's house. Two of his uncles got into a heated debate over the relative merits of Jazz drives and Zip drives. I didn't realize it before, but I'm pretty sure that my long-term loyalty to Zip format stems from the fact that the uncle arguing for Jazz was a fat annoying bastard.
In all honesty, ditto was the best thing to happen to tape backups.
No indication of capacities but I would imagine it goes from 'not a lot' for the massive pre-historic drive up to 'possibly a fuckton' for the 3.5" and 2.5" drives then to something like 'a reasonable amount' for both of the teeny tiny drives.
edit: holy shit that's a big picture.
Tall-Paul MIPsDroid
You can never have too many floppies
To be fair, they were an awesome alternative to CDs size-wise. I'm sure it would've become a lot more popular were users not forced to use that shitty shitty Sony program to put music on them.
it was like $100 cheaper than the sony and worked way better.
Hardcore old school.
Tall-Paul MIPsDroid
I have a floppy drive. It cost like maybe 3 dollars to add it into my machine when I was customizing it and I thought "hell, why not?"
Then I found out all my old floppy disks had erased over the decade or so that they've been sitting behind my books on my bookshelf.
I remember saving my first custom-created Warcraft 2 maps onto floppies with my brother as well as all the stories I used to write up in Microsoft Works (before it just became Word).
i hate it
the case on my new pc only came with one sata power plug
i didnt know there was a different type of plug needed
so even after buying all this new shit i still had to rip out an ide cd drive from an old computer so that i could install windows onto the new hard drive that occupied the only available sata power port
i got a couple of converter things but the inside of my case is this huge mess of wires
most of it is about 20 spare power plugs and they are all the same type of old white plug
as i understand it, its something to do with combining a few drives so they are treated as one
that sounds like a dumb silly idea
(my computer is a six year old dell)
I was helping to measure out a building last year with the company I worked for. In one of the offices was one of those plastic rolodex-things filled with floppy disks. Right up at the front was a MS DOS install disk.
It never occurred to me that you could buy physical copies of MS DOS.
what
so one hard drive fails
but you have backed it up
so you can replace it while still using the backup?
which sounds like if i hooked up an external drive and did some ctrl c ctrl v i could basically do the same thing?
i mean i had 3 external drives hooked to my laptop
now i have one hooked to my new pc and all the 3 stock hdd bays filled up
so a useful way to handle things might be worth looking into
As far as I know raid can be useful for gaming. You can set it up so your computer writes to two hard drives instead of one and reads off of both simultaneously, pretty much just increasing your read times which can speed things up in game quite a bit.
That is my generic understanding at least.