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Agrikk posted:1gb SCSI attached Jaz drive supremacy drat right. Two of those saved me hours every night for the offsite backups.
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Jun 16, 2017 21:46
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RFC2324 posted:Who remembers getting a 1GB drive and being baffled at how you were going to use all that space? More like being a little nipper and thinking how the hell am I going to move a bunch of files between two computers with nothing more than a fistful of 3½" floppy disks, plug n play usb drives were the dawn of new era. I do vaguely remember cramming the minimum files for either Doom or Duke Nukem 3D on a single floppy to just about run.
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mllaneza posted:drat right. Two of those saved me hours every night for the offsite backups. They saved me even more on restore time. Mostly because you couldn't read anything off them
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Jun 16, 2017 21:55
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Boogalo posted:My ZIP drive was internal PATA. Dell XPS supremacy
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SCSI External SyQuest 88. Didn't wait for the disk to spin down all the way before you eject it ? Pretty good chance your data went  !
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My favorite thing about external SCSI of the era was that the port configuration was identical to parallel printer ports. How many "broken printers" were there because it was cabled up to a SCSI card?
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Jun 16, 2017 23:10
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Not quite as old but I remember installing my first 4x cd ROM thinking need for speed was going to install so loving fast
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Jun 16, 2017 23:13
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Not quite as old but I remember installing my first 4x cd ROM thinking need for speed was going to install so loving fast I remember arguing with people over the SUPERIORITY of CD+R over CD-R. It was always an annoying thing in hindsight.
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Jun 16, 2017 23:24
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Maybe it's an age thing, but I don't remember this issue with cd's, definitely with dvd's though
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Jun 16, 2017 23:31
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:I remember arguing with people over the SUPERIORITY of CD+R over CD-R. U hosed up son, CD+R didn't exist only DVD+R. If you gonna be a pendant get it right. And yeah they were better. 
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spankmeister posted:U hosed up son, CD+R didn't exist only DVD+R. If you gonna be a pendant get it right. Pedant.
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Jun 16, 2017 23:57
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:I remember arguing with people over the SUPERIORITY of CD+R over CD-R. I remember reading an article about the revolutionary new WORM CD drives and thinking it would never catch on
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Jun 16, 2017 23:58
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DVD-RAM 4 lyfe. They had a cool pattern on for some reason.
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carry on then posted:Pedant. 
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spankmeister posted:U hosed up son, CD+R didn't exist only DVD+R. If you gonna be a pendant get it right. drat, I'm loving up left and right. TGIF.
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Jun 17, 2017 00:30
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RFC2324 posted:I remember reading an article about the revolutionary new WORM CD drives and thinking it would never catch on I remember sneering at people with their puny CD-R drives as I installed my brand spanking new CD-RW drive Except pretty much nothing could read a CD-RW unless you finalized the session and made it nothing more than an expensive CD-R anyway. 
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Jun 17, 2017 00:44
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You could still rewrite it, it just took longer.
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Yeah you could either burn to the orange book standard or use UDF I think. I spent far too much on a Plextor 16x CD burner because it worked really well for 
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Wibla posted:You could still rewrite it, it just took longer. 'Longer' in the case of my drive meant 'in the time it takes to reformat this disc, you could walk to the shops and buy a new blank CD'
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A Pinball Wizard posted:I remember sneering at people with their puny CD-R drives as I installed my brand spanking new CD-RW drive The days when Nero Burning Rom was actually relevant.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Not quite as old but I remember installing my first 4x cd ROM thinking need for speed was going to install so loving fast I remember walking through Fry's as a little kid and seeing an 8x CD-ROM drive for like $800 and wondering why anyone would even need something that fast, and how they could possibly justify spending that much on it. Methylethylaldehyde fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Jun 17, 2017 |
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:The days when Nero Burning Rom was actually relevant. Oh my god I just got this joke
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CaptainJuan posted:Oh my god I just got this joke Now take a closer look at their logo: 
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:The days when Nero Burning Rom was actually relevant. CaptainJuan posted:Oh my god I just got this joke God dammit
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Jun 17, 2017 01:57
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Holy poo poo.
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God drat.
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The Fool posted:Now take a closer look at their logo: Seriously, how did anyone not get this? 
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Volmarias posted:Seriously, how did anyone not get this?
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Volmarias posted:Seriously, how did anyone not get this?
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:The days when Nero Burning Rom was actually relevant. I remember getting a copy of that free with my fancy 32x CD burner at costco, and thinking it was the bestest poo poo ever compared to the super lovely software bundled with all the other CD burners.
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Volmarias posted:Seriously, how did anyone not get this? I knew the pun was there but didn't know the story until I started mainlining the internet 8 hours a day.
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Got a lovely escalation handed to my team from the helpdesk. "User can't log in to her laptop" was pretty much all the ticket said. Zero details; gently caress that. Kicked the ticket back down to the helpdesk for more information. Ticket comes back to us with the additional information that "user can't input from keyboard." Kick it back down again to have the helpdesk ask some really loving basic troubleshooting questions like "laptop keyboard or external keyboard? Reproducible with both?" etc. Ticket comes back to us again saying basically that the user's video seems shot; at boot there's just gray bars across the screen for a second, then, nothing. OK, fine, helpdesk tech is retarded, whatever. At least we finally have something to go on. I dispatch one of my techs. Dude arrives onsite to find the laptop screen has an obvious point of impact and radiant cracks across the display. Pretty much a "well, there's your problem" moment. User, of course, claims she has no idea how it happened. I get that nobody wants to be yelled at or whatever for busting equipment. But A) my team isn't going to do any yelling because the customer owns the equipment, and B) a sheepish "yeah, I hosed up" earns you a grudging point or two. Liars just look like dumb assholes.
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Lmao @ everyone only now getting the Nero joke. Ofc when I was an idiot babby childe pirating games I didn't get it at the time either.
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mllaneza posted:drat right. Two of those saved me hours every night for the offsite backups. I've got a 2 GB Jaz attached to one of my G4 Towers for no good reason now.
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Got an escalation ticket from the helpdesk yesterday. New user says he can't print in color to his desk printer. The helpdesk tech walks him through five or six troubleshooting steps and carefully documents them all before kicking the ticket to us locally. I took a look and realized that the helpdesk tech missed a very important troubleshooting step. The tech didn't notice that the desk printer was a B&W laser printer 
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Super Slash posted:More like being a little nipper and thinking how the hell am I going to move a bunch of files between two computers with nothing more than a fistful of 3½" floppy disks, plug n play usb drives were the dawn of new era. The real answer was using ARJ with the setting that made it fit multi volume archives to the available disk space.
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Posture Pal posted:Got an escalation ticket from the helpdesk yesterday. New user says he can't print in color to his desk printer. The helpdesk tech walks him through five or six troubleshooting steps and carefully documents them all before kicking the ticket to us locally. I took a look and realized that the helpdesk tech missed a very important troubleshooting step. But the salesman said.....
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RFC2324 posted:Who remembers getting a 1GB drive and being baffled at how you were going to use all that space? I remember my dad finally getting a new PC that I could install all of Baldur's Gate 2 on and enjoy blazing fast load times.
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