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| 8" floppy |
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1 | 2.17% |
| 5.25" floppy |
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3 | 6.52% |
| 3.5" floppy |
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3 | 6.52% |
| zip disk |
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2 | 4.35% |
| jaz disk |
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2 | 4.35% |
| hdd |
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1 | 2.17% |
| its tape |
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9 | 19.57% |
| CD |
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3 | 6.52% |
| DVD |
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0 | 0% |
| Bluray |
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0 | 0% |
| SD |
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0 | 0% |
| MicroSD |
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1 | 2.17% |
| compactflash!!! |
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3 | 6.52% |
| thumb drive |
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3 | 6.52% |
| ssdeez |
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1 | 2.17% |
| punch card |
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1 | 2.17% |
| scantron |
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2 | 4.35% |
| superdisk |
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0 | 0% |
| who cares it's in the cloud |
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0 | 0% |
| it looks like a silver record but it's a laserdisc |
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2 | 4.35% |
| ram |
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0 | 0% |
| ramalamading dong |
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1 | 2.17% |
| hard copy |
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2 | 4.35% |
| hard floppy |
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1 | 2.17% |
| floppy penis |
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5 | 10.87% |
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gently caress the humble compact disc
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Feb 10, 2024 20:02
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voted 3.5", cf and laserdisc
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Feb 10, 2024 20:08
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Dans Macabre posted:gently caress the humble compact disc all my homies hate the compact disc
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Feb 10, 2024 20:09
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I forgot to add minidisc and the cute little business card CDs
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Feb 10, 2024 20:09
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rotor posted:voted 3.5", cf and laserdisc honestly I'm a microsd enthusiast these days
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Feb 10, 2024 20:10
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you also forgot memory stick and umd
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Feb 10, 2024 20:11
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Dans Macabre posted:honestly I'm a microsd enthusiast these days its too small imo
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Feb 10, 2024 20:11
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rotor posted:its too small imo much like your post history 
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Feb 10, 2024 20:12
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NoneMoreNegative posted:found while tidying haveblue posted:macro SD Voted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=422jR1WYP7s&t=121s
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Feb 10, 2024 20:16
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Feb 10, 2024 21:10
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Dans Macabre posted:I forgot to add minidisc and the cute little business card CDs voted punch card and tape because minidisc was missing, thanks for acknowledging
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Feb 10, 2024 21:13
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anything in a caddy, really. bring them back
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Feb 10, 2024 21:14
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I want to sling my media around like a real cyberpunk. none of this fussy "handle it by the edges" business.
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Feb 10, 2024 21:15
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also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc holograms.
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Feb 10, 2024 21:18
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minidisk is the most aesthetic storage option
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Feb 10, 2024 21:21
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voted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HhA0Cghr4k
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Feb 10, 2024 21:21
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those full credit card sized SIM cards that early phones took that could store like 30 numbers and 10 texts
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Feb 10, 2024 21:52
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haha penis
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Feb 10, 2024 21:58
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Voted 1, no "1700 pounds of liquid mercury in a long tube" option.
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Feb 10, 2024 21:59
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Jonny 290 posted:Voted 1, no "1700 pounds of liquid mercury in a long tube" option. same, but also no "twangs travelling along a coil of stainless wire"
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Feb 10, 2024 22:36
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5200 rpm spinning platters
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Feb 10, 2024 22:56
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remember those quantum bigfoots lol
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Feb 10, 2024 22:59
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unironically tape it lasts forever if you take care of it, and if you write to with with a universal format like tar you can read it back forever a side project at work is pulling off data from some Data8 tapes circa mid 90s. they're just tars so you can read em in no issue. only problem is that some of them were written on big endian sparc boxes so you gotta convert the byte order
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Feb 10, 2024 23:16
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Raere posted:unironically tape real question what data is on there that is valuable enough to do this
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Feb 10, 2024 23:51
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and by the way I voted tape unironically as well
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Feb 10, 2024 23:51
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even cheap tape holds up pretty well. i've got games on cassettes from the mid 80s that work fine, despite spending most of the last 35 years in an uninsulated loft
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Feb 11, 2024 00:06
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Dans Macabre posted:real question what data is on there that is valuable enough to do this the archives dept’s mission is to preserve indefinitely everything that has been given to their care. at time of accession someone thought it was worth keeping
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Feb 11, 2024 00:15
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all in on hard disk (the one that is actually physically floppy and holds like no data). wtf is hard floppy.
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Feb 11, 2024 00:51
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there is no universal format
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Feb 11, 2024 16:22
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Dans Macabre posted:I forgot to add minidisc and the cute little business card CDs the latter are cd singles, which I’m also fond of, even if it’s just smol cd
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Feb 11, 2024 16:33
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Dans Macabre posted:I forgot to add minidisc and the cute little business card CDs they came in lots of different shapes, here's one i have 
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Feb 11, 2024 17:31
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OldAlias posted:the latter are cd singles, which I’m also fond of, even if it’s just smol cd The 80 mm round ones were sometimes used for singles but I'm talking about the business card ones
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Feb 11, 2024 17:42
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Elder Postsman posted:they came in lots of different shapes, here's one i have I like how these occasionally hosed up and broke cd players who couldn’t handle em lol the cd singles I currently have are a few jpop ones from the label avex trax, which come in these like, long thin cardboard sleeves, which is nice for artwork. early CDs did something similar with their packaging iirc, altho a bunch bigger. it was more intentionally inconvenient as a sort of theft deterrent thing if my memory serves right the other cd single I have atm came bundled with a game, Noël special edition for ps1. the weird shaped ones I used to have are prolly still in a basement on the other side of the country
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Feb 11, 2024 17:44
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oh yeah also loving game cube
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Feb 11, 2024 17:45
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i had a cd for some game demo that was shaped like a saw blade boy that thing sounded great in the drive
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Feb 11, 2024 18:05
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there were some weirdly-shaped beatles cds:   
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Feb 11, 2024 18:17
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Captain Foo posted:i had a cd for some game demo that was shaped like a saw blade lol  Employee who knows physical media: We could just do a print on the disc..? Manager who will not let their idea go no matter how costly or suboptimal: No. Definitely a special cutout disc.
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Feb 11, 2024 18:17
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https://www.discogs.com/release/1543940-The-Flaming-Lips-This-Here-Giraffe/image/SW1hZ2U6MzQ0Nzk4MDQ=
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Feb 11, 2024 18:20
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id like to add Dreamcast VMU to the list please
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Feb 11, 2024 22:47
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sega gamegear cartridge
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Feb 11, 2024 23:37
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