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ZIP DISKS

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    Air wrote: »
    no
    other than the backwards compatibility thing, minidiscs would be a good replacement for cds and dvds if they could fit all their shit onto them

    because if someone asks for a cd you have to hand it to them carefully and treat if like a fucking princess so it dont get scratched
    minidiscs you could dropkick from across the room and get it to them on the rebound

    god, fucking tell me about it
    consoles made the same fucking mistake

    cartridge to CD/DVD was a step in the wrong direction
    No, because if they didn't do this, you would need like six to ten cartridges to fit a single game on.

    just make cartridges with larger capacities!
    this isn't complicated

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  • the cheatthe cheat Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    Air wrote: »
    no
    other than the backwards compatibility thing, minidiscs would be a good replacement for cds and dvds if they could fit all their shit onto them

    because if someone asks for a cd you have to hand it to them carefully and treat if like a fucking princess so it dont get scratched
    minidiscs you could dropkick from across the room and get it to them on the rebound

    god, fucking tell me about it
    consoles made the same fucking mistake

    cartridge to CD/DVD was a step in the wrong direction
    No, because if they didn't do this, you would need like six to ten cartridges to fit a single game on.

    because... for some reason the capacity of a cartridge would never increase. we have things like micro SD cards that can fit 4 fucking gigs...

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    cartridges are super expensive though, potatoe

    for the manufacturers I mean

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    my family had a laser disk player. i hated having to stop halfway through a movie and having to flip the disc. also, beta was awesome. robocop on betamax was the best thing i ever saw till i laid eyes on an hd set

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Skull Man wrote: »
    cartridges are super expensive though, potatoe

    for the manufacturers I mean

    so what, tack on a couple bucks to my price
    it's an investment
    they'll last for 30 years like these damn atari 2600 carts i've got lying around

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    Skull Man wrote: »
    cartridges are super expensive though, potatoe

    for the manufacturers I mean

    so what, tack on a couple bucks to my price
    it's an investment
    they'll last for 30 years like these damn atari 2600 carts i've got lying around

    it's not a couple extra dollars

    snes and n64 empty carts cost the manufacturers about $30 a pop, guess how much blank CDs are

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Skull Man wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Skull Man wrote: »
    cartridges are super expensive though, potatoe

    for the manufacturers I mean

    so what, tack on a couple bucks to my price
    it's an investment
    they'll last for 30 years like these damn atari 2600 carts i've got lying around

    it's not a couple extra dollars

    snes and n64 empty carts cost the manufacturers about $30 a pop, guess how much blank CDs are

    well if they are saving all that money by using a cheaper media what in the blue blazes am i paying $60 a game for?

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  • CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    I used to have a minidisc player


    hahahahahahaha

    I got an MP3 player for Christmas in like 1999. It was some old RCA piece of shit, it was all bulky with a screen the size of a postage stamp. It had no internal memory, and used compact flash cards. Between a few cards, I think I had like 256 MB of storage.

    It was the shit.

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    profit

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  • the cheatthe cheat Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    well if they are saving all that money by using a cheaper media what in the blue blazes am i paying $60 a game for?

    hookers and blow, of course.

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  • KilljoyKilljoy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    my first and only console to date has been a sega genesis

    i was born in 1991

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    Skull Man wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Skull Man wrote: »
    cartridges are super expensive though, potatoe

    for the manufacturers I mean

    so what, tack on a couple bucks to my price
    it's an investment
    they'll last for 30 years like these damn atari 2600 carts i've got lying around

    it's not a couple extra dollars

    snes and n64 empty carts cost the manufacturers about $30 a pop, guess how much blank CDs are

    well if they are saving all that money by using a cheaper media what in the blue blazes am i paying $60 a game for?

    It didn't take hundreds of staff in an office 4 years and millions of dollars to create River Raid. Nowadays games are big productions. If you like you can download cheap or free games from the internet that still have 2D graphics and one level if you like. That'll be pretty damn cheap.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    Skull Man wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    Skull Man wrote: »
    cartridges are super expensive though, potatoe

    for the manufacturers I mean

    so what, tack on a couple bucks to my price
    it's an investment
    they'll last for 30 years like these damn atari 2600 carts i've got lying around

    it's not a couple extra dollars

    snes and n64 empty carts cost the manufacturers about $30 a pop, guess how much blank CDs are

    well if they are saving all that money by using a cheaper media what in the blue blazes am i paying $60 a game for?

    It didn't take hundreds of staff in an office 4 years and millions of dollars to create River Raid. Nowadays games are big productions. If you like you can download cheap or free games from the internet that still have 2D graphics and one level if you like. That'll be pretty damn cheap.

    tell that to bomberman 64!

    potatoe on
  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Killjoy wrote: »
    my first and only console to date has been a sega genesis

    i was born in 1991

    Your batting 100% so far then. That console was the shit.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Druhim wrote: »
    I used to have a minidisc player


    hahahahahahaha

    I got an MP3 player for Christmas in like 1999. It was some old RCA piece of shit, it was all bulky with a screen the size of a postage stamp. It had no internal memory, and used compact flash cards. Between a few cards, I think I had like 256 MB of storage.

    It was the shit.

    Haha, I remember this one rich older kid who had a special little case for his MP3 memory cards. He had about a dozen, and we all thought he was the coolest thing.

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  • CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    I used to have a minidisc player


    hahahahahahaha

    I got an MP3 player for Christmas in like 1999. It was some old RCA piece of shit, it was all bulky with a screen the size of a postage stamp. It had no internal memory, and used compact flash cards. Between a few cards, I think I had like 256 MB of storage.

    It was the shit.

    Haha, I remember this one rich older kid who had a special little case for his MP3 memory cards. He had about a dozen, and we all thought he was the coolest thing.

    It was the coolest thing.

    I bet he got laid so much.

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  • babyeatingjesusbabyeatingjesus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    man... flash storage has gotten really really cheap.

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    man... flash storage has gotten really really cheap.

    Tell me about it. I bought a flash drive in 2003. It cost me $45 and it was on sale. Guess how much storage capacity it had.

    128 megs!

    I'll put that in perspective.

    In 2006 I recieved another flash drive that was also 128mb for free as a promotional item from HP's sales team because I was looking into multi-function printers for the office I worked in. It was the same as giving someone a pen or a coffee mug or a pad of post-it notes with your logo on them.

    I can buy a 1gb (that's 1000mb) flash drive at Blockbuster Video now for $20. It's a name brand and everything. You can probably buy these things at the gas station now too.

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  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i remember that one time like 13 years ago when i was upset that i couldnt install NASCAR RACING 2 because it required 16 megs of RAM and i only had 8

    tugga on
  • babyeatingjesusbabyeatingjesus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I got 4 flash drives made by fucking Duracell.

    4gb

    $20.

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I remember having to uninstall lego island to make room for lego island 2

    Mistake!

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  • tuggatugga Makin' movies Makin' songsRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i just got this new PC from my dad

    first thing i installed was Doom 1 & 2

    these will be the games i will play until the day i die

    tugga on
  • DislexicDislexic Creepy Uncle Bad Touch Your local playgroundRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    or you could just get a 2 gig flash for like $20

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i remember thinking zip disks were the shit back in 8th or 9th grade
    at the time, my school had a tiny tiny little computer lab with about 12 computers in it
    the i.t. guy was a friend of a guy who was a friend of my dad
    with a few other guys, we had sweet lan parties

    quake 2 with some crow t robot and something else add-on all on a zip disc

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I also had a minidisc player.

    It was the shit, man. Even more portable than a discman!

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    How about the fact that you can buy 8 gb memory cards that are the size of your pinky.

    That shit is straight out science fiction.

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  • TenTen Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I remember trying to clear room on my friend's 20MB drive so we could install the awesome new game he got

    Damned if I can remember what the game was though

    Ten on
  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    My last computer had Windows ME, 127MB RAM (not even 128), and a 19GB harddrive. Oh how times have changed.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    How about the fact that you can buy 8 gb memory cards that are the size of your pinky.

    That shit is straight out science fiction.

    i still can't figure out what the hell i would do with an 8 gig card
    the capacity on those things is mind-blowing though

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  • doublehawk00doublehawk00 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    4 gb flash drive right infront of me with nothing on it

    it feels almost wasteful

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Quick, put some porn on it, or something.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    install a linux distro on it!

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  • doublehawk00doublehawk00 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    eh i'll just fill it with jpegs

    jpegs and pngs

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Of porn?

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  • doublehawk00doublehawk00 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    of zip disks

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    That's some meta shit.

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  • TenTen Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I realised that we live in the future the other day after my wife video called me to figure out which jacket she should buy for me

    Ten on
  • Uncle LongUncle Long Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oh man Zip Disks. I found a whole stack of those when throwing away crap in the office. They had all of the backups of our newspaper files from around 2000-2005. The girl that lays out the paper snatched them away from me before I could say anything about tossing them out. She got all manners of uppity when I suggested we just burn the whole lot of them onto a DVD so we didn't have to keep the external zip drive around.

    Also, yeah, I not only had a minidisc player, I upgraded from a minidisc player to a newer minidisc player well into the heyday of the iPod and the likes. Those things were rock solid. Kind of seems like a waste now. Can't even really sell the thing for enough to make it worth the effort.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    How about the fact that you can buy 8 gb memory cards that are the size of your pinky.

    That shit is straight out science fiction.

    i still can't figure out what the hell i would do with an 8 gig card
    the capacity on those things is mind-blowing though

    I use them for transfering several hours worth of video.

    Or on occasion work files of solid model contacts.

    But really 99% of the time it's barely full.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2008
    I remember in high school one of the teachers taught a computer course and we had Apple IIe comps
    he once claimed that no computer would need more than 512k of ram because no conceivable software would ever need anywhere near that much memory

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