A Brief History Of Archaic Binary Data Storage Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rc6i169FS0

 

but no one remembers "core". that stuff that looked like a window screen with little tiny teeny ceramic doughnuts where the wires crossed each other.

 

Poppy doesnt give you a floppy disk i bet

 

She gives me a binary

 

She seems especially sad now that her pop music career seems to have not taken off.

 

Brilliant! It sounds like she's reading something I would have written. haha!

 

she appears to be of the double density type

 

Double D? Nah.....more like....whats smaller than an A?

 

Is she there there?

 

I still have dozens of them and possibly one desktop computer with an A:\ drive, though I have an external floppy read/write. The thing is that you don't suddenly have an alarm clock go off with a message that says: "you've had that floppy drive for 10 years. Throw it in the garbage before 5PM." They just sort of accumulate and, in the unlikely event that they're thrown out the locval paper the very next day has an article saying how much this or that computer archeological thingie is skyrocketing in value (there's a Nokia 2G phone from a decade or more ago that is worth four figures on EBay, e.g.

I have ZIP drives and ZIP discs and tons of gender changers (blush) and a couple of XP computers (one of which works). Lots of peripheral USB hard discs from 100GB to 3TB, though, in practice I now use portable Seagates for all those hundreds of megabytes downloads from YouTube.

(and I still burn CDs and DVDs, much to the contempt of the local best Buy guys

 

Dude, seriously


You still have floppy disks?

I wouldnt admit that out loud.

 

Seeing the title to this thread reminded me of IRQ42. :bigcry:

 

That's why I only mention it here in this private, secure, confidential forum. I can assure you they'll be gone by 2020 - after which I'll have 20/20 hindsight

 

bring back the original YAHOO messenger

 

There are 10 types of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

 

Should actually be 00000010 not 10

 

It doesn't have to be expressed as a byte.

It could be presented in various ways including:

a word: 0000000000000010
a byte: 00000010
a nibble: 0010
or half a nibble: 10

 

I have to confess - I still have vinyl LPs, music cassettes, videotapes and a reel-to-reel tape recorder - mostly so I can transfer drumming, guitaring and pianoing that I used to do but am not much good at any more

However, my Kodak Brownie is gone.

Not really computing stuff but this thread isn't exactly over-crowded with eager posters, so