Post Ak1zfFcu6CxfRy7PiC by JessicaTaylor@chaosfem.tw
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(DIR) Post #Ak1yCfdQDoRllHAWp6 by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-17T19:02:13Z
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The three great blunders:1. Getting involved in a land war in Asia2. Going up against a Sicilian when death js in the line3. Developing a new floppy disk in the late 90s
(DIR) Post #Ak1yVWCZWAZK0Wb5lo by bloognoo@retro.pizza
2024-07-17T19:09:55Z
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@fooneOh iOmega, I loved your zip disks.
(DIR) Post #Ak1ytBlN9z4VZHA6BU by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-17T19:14:48Z
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Floppy storage had stagnated since the mid 80s. Files were getting bigger. Digital cameras finally existed. MP3 players existed.Clearly the time was right for a new floppy disk. The people crave a new floppy disk. Who will win? Zip? Ls120? Caleb uhd144? PocketZip?Nope! It'll be CD burners for a couple years, then flash memory will eat the lunch of any other portable media forever.
(DIR) Post #Ak1zKCgJqxHkEegDM8 by d_j_fitzgerald@bitbang.social
2024-07-17T19:20:24Z
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@foone I still dont understand why the IBM 2.88MB format never took off in the early 90s. They even had an IBM 4 MB disk!
(DIR) Post #Ak1zU4XcyNyLsvJum8 by indigoparadox@mastodon.social
2024-07-17T19:21:58Z
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@foone The dedicated media wing couldn't get their sh*t together and ended up dividing the vote so much they got their lunch eaten by the dumb format that attaches the same way keyboards and networking interfaces do, creating a variety of security holes and societal problems forever.It's like a metaphor for something but I can't... quite... put my finger on it...
(DIR) Post #Ak1zfFcu6CxfRy7PiC by JessicaTaylor@chaosfem.tw
2024-07-17T19:23:50Z
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@foone One of my 1st year college requirements in the early 2000s was a big floppy. (Zip disc 100MB)I definitely had a flash drive but I don't think it was as big as the Zip disc.
(DIR) Post #Ak200wil4PotBcCa4O by jhilden@vis.social
2024-07-17T19:27:54Z
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@foone Was a fun time to live through. Remember considering buying my own zip disks as a design student. Had one that I found. Then: Poof, all the computers at school with zip disks gone. CD-R:s for a while, then decided to surf the price comparison sites to find the cheapest 256MB USB stick (was not cheap, something like 80€)
(DIR) Post #Ak20HnVQaJ4rWt0BsG by foo@fosstodon.org
2024-07-17T19:30:14Z
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@foone I'm not affected too much by "want to feel old?", but I legitimately just had a moment of "why are you explaining LS-120 to me as if it were a history lesson?""Do not cite the Zip to me, witch. I was there when it was clicking to death."
(DIR) Post #Ak2347AayeewKBQPiK by Yuki@xantronix.social
2024-07-17T20:01:09Z
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@foone It's truly a shame that MiniDisc was stymied by Sony from being a computer storage medium (MD Data was separated because of music copying concerns). If Sony released SCSI drives in '92-'93 that used normal audio style minidiscs rather than MD Data, I feel like a ton of computer manufactures would have gotten on board.With 140MB of storage (Taken from MD Data specs) it was comparable to an LS-120 or zip100, in a smaller form factor.
(DIR) Post #Ak25mwkel7oSx5nVbc by miermont@qoto.org
2024-07-17T20:32:24Z
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@foone Wasn't there also some kind of Bernoulli floppy disk aroud this time? Memory's fuzzy.
(DIR) Post #Ak25uiTzh4sf0zi0YK by foone@digipres.club
2024-07-17T20:33:45Z
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@miermont That was the Bernoulli Box, by iomega. That's from the 80s. By the mid-90s they'd switched to Zip Disks, and by the end of the decade they were pushing PocketZip/Clik! instead and the bigger Zip Disks like the Zip250 and Zip750
(DIR) Post #Ak26HpoQbngoPLI3qy by miermont@qoto.org
2024-07-17T20:38:24Z
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@foone Thanks for the memory refresh.
(DIR) Post #Ak2EvSwTrFKyh5SuTA by fenris23@eldritch.cafe
2024-07-17T22:14:51Z
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@fooneI loved zip for a while. Every webpage I made lived on them."All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain..."