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GutBomb posted:It's discontinued and the stock they have left all expires very soon You're looking for this: https://us.polaroidoriginals.com/pages/instant-film It used to be impossible project, but they apparently recently bought some Polaroid IP.
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 ActRaiser has the greatest slogan of all time. CREATE ORDER FROM CHAOS! Has that not been the goal of all lifeforms for the last four billion years? I was reminded of the slogan when I went looking for this track, which I’m linking just because it is also  :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a2ENyUfo_8 Platystemon has a new favorite as of 10:39 on Mar 4, 2018 |
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Platystemon posted:
I was so mad they hosed up the sequel.
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WELL, then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHQK9qeKavM
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Data Graham posted:I'm surprised this commercial wasn't on it: When I was a young teen, my dad drove a refrigerated box truck that delivered frozen pizzas to grocery stores and sometimes I would ride with him. He would let me use Skoal dip, as he did, when we were on the road. One time I said something to him about Skoal Bandits, saying it might be cleaner to use since it was in the little pouches. "Kind of like eating pussy through panties, isn't it?" This is the wisdom that my father left me with.
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GutBomb posted:It's discontinued and the stock they have left all expires very soon It's probably a sound investment then, considering the crazy prices expired film goes for on eBay.
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Someone's mom finally cleared out the shelves in the den: [img] https://i.imgur.com/rVp7DU6.jpg[/img] jojoinnit has a new favorite as of 00:36 on Mar 8, 2018 |
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Colin McRae Rally was the killer app for the Sony Playstation home microcomputer system. I don't think I ever saw anyone play it on anything else.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Colin McRae Rally was the killer app for the Sony Playstation home microcomputer system. I don't think I ever saw anyone play it on anything else. Too soon, RIP Colin.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Too soon, RIP Colin. Ooooh that's why they changed the series name to Dirt!
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Jerry Cotton posted:Ooooh that's why they changed the series name to Dirt! You are a terrible person!
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Jerry Cotton posted:Ooooh that's why they changed the series name to Dirt! drat.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4hQeWtkTC8 I still hate you, iOmega Corporation/LenovoEMC. I hate you so.
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Gonz posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4hQeWtkTC8
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mystes posted:Did you actually have a Clik! drive? No, but I had a Zip Drive by iomega and that thing was feces diarrhea.
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Gonz posted:No, but I had a Zip Drive by iomega and that thing was feces diarrhea. At the time the 100MB capacity was pretty amazing.
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Gonz posted:I still hate you, iOmega Corporation/LenovoEMC. I hate you so. Same except I only just learned that Lenovo and EMC were part of the same conglomerate. I wish they had just accepted my money and set fire to it right in front of me instead of wasting my time with tech support for click of death and then a lovely class action lawsuit deal for a tiny discount if I bought another product from them. No, I will never buy another product from you, nice try.
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... And then there was the Spar-Q drive that Iomega bought out and conveniently buried. Iomega clung to the belief that a dollar a Meg was the unbreakable bond in removable media storage. At least Zip drives were faster than Colorado backup tape.
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drat, a dollar a meg. I remember the very first external hard drive I bought, around the time when a dollar a gig was a reasonable price. It was 400GB and I got it for $250 and that was a really good deal. These days I could get something twenty times that size or more for the same price
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:drat, a dollar a meg. I remember the very first external hard drive I bought, around the time when a dollar a gig was a reasonable price. It was 400GB and I got it for $250 and that was a really good deal. These days I could get something twenty times that size or more for the same price I remember my old man buying an For roughly $2000, I think. Farmdizzle has a new favorite as of 09:33 on Mar 25, 2018 |
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I had the LS-120 superdrive back in 2001, which took regular 3.5" floppys as well as the LS-120 floppy which held 120Mb. The local university also had them -ho they also had CD burners but I didn't have one at home. They never broke down on me but the transfer rate was ghastly. IIRC I had one disc which cost about $20, USB drives became available that year at about $50/8MB or $80/16MB which I couldn't afford.
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Farmdizzle posted:I remember my old man buying an internal hard drive for a TRS-80. It was roughly the size of a kids' shoe box, weighed about 10 pounds, and held a whopping 5 megs. Internal?
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I worked for iomega's support company and the clicking drive wasn't that big of an issue and you got a free drive I'd that happened. It rarely wrecked data and actually could be fixed easily by doing something to your disks (I think it was put marker over the reflective pattern in the corner).. but you got a free drive if you heald the phone to the clicking drive. Most of the problems were driver issues (4+ parallel or us controllers with multiple drivers) etc that were just signs of the times for PC's then. Yes the parallel drives were super slow but it was a loving parallel port. When they outsourced to India I got moved to Sony TiVo, webtv and satellite boxes... God drat those were lovely products.
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tater_salad posted:When they outsourced to India I got moved to Sony TiVo, webtv and satellite boxes... God drat those were lovely products. Wow. That reminded me someone got permabanned from here for logging on via a webtv.
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The Sausages posted:I had the LS-120 superdrive back in 2001, which took regular 3.5" floppys as well as the LS-120 floppy which held 120Mb. The local university also had them -ho they also had CD burners but I didn't have one at home. They never broke down on me but the transfer rate was ghastly. IIRC I had one disc which cost about $20, USB drives became available that year at about $50/8MB or $80/16MB which I couldn't afford. Haha, I had one of these fuckers  https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-PV-SD4090-Digital-Camera-Optical/dp/B00004T1MB Thing was enormous, even compared to other digicams of the day. The 3.5" disk format made for an ungainly-rear end enclosure. I could take (short, small, grainy) videos when Mavicas could only do still shots though, so yay? Years later I had some old floppies that I wanted to get data off of, and all my computers with floppy drives were long dead, but that camera—plugged in the USB and it worked like a charm 
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tater_salad posted:but you got a free drive if you heald the phone to the clicking drive. "Ok sir, I need you to hold your phone up to the drive so I can hear the clicking and then I'll send you a new one." "Ok, hold on" *customer service rep listens intently to phone* *customer rips a big fart into the phone* Cojawfee has a new favorite as of 05:14 on Mar 25, 2018 |
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Oh god I had to use a Sony Mavica with the 3.5" disk drive for work. Goddamn that fucker was slow and saved like 20 lovely 320x200 pictures or some bullshit like that. At the same time, they had me using an infrared camera for electrical maintenance stuff. This was very early 2000's and that camera was garbage. It didn't have a 2-dimensional sensor array, just a single 1x120 strip that would sweep across the frame. Still cost about 15 grand. Government contractors: buying the cheapest garbage equipment and refusing to train people on it. Cue the equipment rotting in some vault.
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I just got a USB 3.5 floppy drive and am having a ball going through all the old poo poo I used to save. I'm actually surprised it recognises them with win10! FAKE EDIT: The thing in my avatar is related - found a box of disks full of dodgy old porno pictures from our sneakernet operations as kids.
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Humphreys posted:I just got a USB 3.5 floppy drive and am having a ball going through all the old poo poo I used to save. I'm actually surprised it recognises them with win10! When I first read that, I was hoping you had disks full of dodgy old porno pictures of Microwave's mom.
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My Iomega Zip Drive Parallel is still in a box somewhere, with about 7 or 8 disks (a few purloined from work). Worked pretty well. One or two of the disks made it look like it had "click death," but there was this software called "Trouble in Paradise" that would fix it somehow. My first PC only had a gigabyte hard drive, and 100 MB Zip disks were great for carting kewl warez from my job (which had a good internet connection) to home, or just backing things up. There was something kinda neat about having everything I'd ever done on a computer on a cheap li'l plastic disk. I wonder if I'm remembering correctly, but there was even some Iomega utility to make room on a crowded hard drive and move programs wholesale to run off of a Zip drive. A parallel port storage solution had its charm, but my god, the Universal Serial Bus was about the best invention of all time. (Also, gently caress any company that uses special connectors for consumer electronics in 2018.)
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doctorfrog posted:My Iomega Zip Drive Parallel is still in a box somewhere, with about 7 or 8 disks (a few purloined from work). Worked pretty well. One or two of the disks made it look like it had "click death," but there was this software called "Trouble in Paradise" that would fix it somehow. Holy poo poo, Trouble in Paradise! This brought back some memories. In junior high/high school tech class, I was one of those uber-nerd kids, and curried favor with the teacher. Over the course of a few years, instead of doing the actual "tech class" activities, (like building Mindstorms things, farting around with the XWING flight simulator setup, or doing aero tests on pinewood derby cars with the wind chamber), I sat aside and wrote the instructional binders for the different stations. I had to complete one binder per quarter, and otherwise got to dick around playing Myst on the iMacs or making a Sims household kill itself. One of the stations I wrote a binder on was the Video Editing station, which included a green-screen "news anchor"-style desk, and a special computer that could handle the video editing software (this was rural-ish Idaho). We transferred the finished video files from that station to the publishing computer via Zip disk. Part of my binder was about using this unapproved third-party software another kid had found online called Trouble in Paradise to troubleshoot and recover files from "damaged" Zip disks. I even folded a CD sleeve out of a piece of paper and burned a copy of TiP to a CD and taped it inside the binder, just in case. This was from 2002-2006, prime-time for poo poo like that.
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Data Graham posted:Internal? Whoops. No, external. But it did require adding a separate interface controller internally. Which reminds me of the fact that IDE was a big step up when it came out. I remember the days of hard drives having two different cables. I also remember using HDPARK.EXE to park the heads on an old 286 machine we had.
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tater_salad posted:I worked for iomega's support company and the clicking drive wasn't that big of an issue and you got a free drive I'd that happened. Yeah, IIRC the click of death issue was very sort lived. Early drives weren't affected, then after it appeared (due to a design change to reduce costs) it was resolved fairly quickly. Yet it's the one story that always comes up when someone mentions Zip drives.
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Farmdizzle posted:Whoops. No, external. But it did require adding a separate interface controller internally. Oh my god, parking the hard drive heads. Remember how hard drives in that era didn't make clicking sounds when accessing data, they made squeaking sounds?
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Click of death was the hardware virus thing right? Where each disk you stuck in the dead drive would then go on to kill any good drive you stuck them in?
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Bum the Sad posted:Click of death was the hardware virus thing right? Where each disk you stuck in the dead drive would then go on to kill any good drive you stuck them in? How does that even work? I've heard it before but I don't understand the mechanism.
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It's one of those things were everybody says they saw it, or that it happened to their uncle who works at Nintendo or to their girlfriend who you don't know because she goes to a different school. It's really two different problems that people conflate: 1. The click-of-death was where poorly aligned heads made the drive report read errors. Part of the error recovery mechanism was for the drive to snap the heads back to the home position and retry. A tiny rubber washer acted as a cushion to prevent the head from being damaged by the rapid movement. At some point the washer was eliminated as a cost cutting measure, but that made drives wear out quickly and the clicking sound caused by the moving head would gradually get worse and worse until the drive refused to read any data at all. This didn't affect the disk itself, and Iomega put the washer back after about 3 months so the majority of drives don't suffer from the clicking problem. 2. Disk damage. This is unrelated to the clicking issue. Disks that were physically damaged could scratch the heads, and the heads would then scratch any other disks inserted, and those scratched disks could damage other drives, etc... The disks were reasonably sturdy though and had to be damaged in fairly specific ways before setting off the chain. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 19:15 on Mar 26, 2018 |
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I seem to remember telling folks to cover this portion (triangle in top left) of the disk with sharpie.. cant remember why it would sometimes fix the click of death but it was used as a stopgap while their new drive arrived.
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