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Anyone here remember Zip drives? They were like floppies, but like 5 times bigger (while only holding about twice as much memory). I wonder if anyone ever actually used them...
 
Sopheria said:
Anyone here remember Zip drives? They were like floppies, but like 5 times bigger (while only holding about twice as much memory). I wonder if anyone ever actually used them...
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I actually was given a zip disc to use by my dad when I was a kid! Oh I loved that thing, it felt like I could fit so much on there (lol, if I only knew).

And then after some time it broke (the drive wouldn't read it anymore) and I was sad. Meh. I think I mostly just stored random midis of game music on that disc anyway. Maybe a few pictures. But mostly that music.
 
Sylphiel said:
I actually was given a zip disc to use by my dad when I was a kid! Oh I loved that thing, it felt like I could fit so much on there (lol, if I only knew).

And then after some time it broke (the drive wouldn't read it anymore) and I was sad. Meh. I think I mostly just stored random midis of game music on that disc anyway. Maybe a few pictures. But mostly that music.
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At the time they were a big improvement over floppy disks in terms of the amount of space they used, but they were so darn big. Who would have guessed back then that in 10 years we'd be keeping 32 GB of storage on our keychains xD
 
The only remembrance of ZIP disks I have is with old software and with VMs. Some of my older Windows installers would prompt on the screen "If you have a third-party SCSI or RAID driver, insert the floppy or ZIP disk now..."
 
floppy disks were the shit back when i was in elementary school. if you didn't have one you were basically inferior (except not really)
 
Removable media that isn't easily reusable is a big no-no for me. I have a bit of a hard time how people thought CDs were better than floppies because of that, lol. Then again a lot of people have this idea about digital storage that size is the only attribute in existence, so idk lol
 
I feel like a digital Jon Snow here, I know nothing :/
 
Inyotef said:
I don't know who Jon Snow is. Care to enlighten me?
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He's from Game Of Thrones, and he knows nothing. I haven't watched it, I just wanted to make a clever remark, haha.
 
MorallyIncorrect said:
He's like in that video for 3 seconds. Also, that video went on way too long for it being not that funny.
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whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

this is blasphemy
THIS IS MADNESS
 
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