TOS posted:Metacell posted:ukimalefu posted:
All you had to do was cut your own write-notch into the side, and you could make every single-sided floppy a double.
you weren't a real geek unless you had a big, strong hole punch
that's pretty cool. Too bad it has that plinky casio sound machine, but cool anyway.
ukimalefu posted:TOS posted:Metacell posted:ukimalefu posted:
All you had to do was cut your own write-notch into the side, and you could make every single-sided floppy a double.
you weren't a real geek unless you had a big, strong hole punch
I had one of those. But it was black. I had several hundred games for my Commodore 64. About 5 or 6 that I actually paid for.
so that's why it went out of business eh?
Warin posted:ukimalefu posted:TOS posted:Metacell posted:ukimalefu posted:
All you had to do was cut your own write-notch into the side, and you could make every single-sided floppy a double.
you weren't a real geek unless you had a big, strong hole punch
I had one of those. But it was black. I had several hundred games for my Commodore 64. About 5 or 6 that I actually paid for.
i still have my floppies in the basement!
Warin posted:ukimalefu posted:TOS posted:Metacell posted:ukimalefu posted:
All you had to do was cut your own write-notch into the side, and you could make every single-sided floppy a double.
you weren't a real geek unless you had a big, strong hole punch
I had one of those. But it was black. I had several hundred games for my Commodore 64. About 5 or 6 that I actually paid for.
I have a few unopened cases of those. I still regularly use them in my 8032 PET. My Win98 backup PC has one as well. I occasionally recover old documents for clients with it.
wait...
shnickty?...
wait...!
Wolverine is canadian...
has to be just a coincidence...
/me slurps
For a while there Sting thought he was Lord Byron.
Pretentious as always.
But he's a good digger!
god bless 'er!
She *almost* looks amused.
Séamas posted:She *almost* looks amused.
Perhaps, but she looks totally hot.
Haven't seen it in years, but I remember the shark looked very real to me.
I think it looks pretty real, still. For a manual mockup.
ukimalefu posted:
Holy crap, I had that exact modem for years! Interestingly, it used a Rockwell DSP chip that was upgradable. By the time I took it out of service, it was capable of doing 33.6kbps. 56kbps required more advanced modem codecs than the hardware could support, so I had to replace it when that became the standard, but that was an unbelievable little modem in its day.
Metacell posted:I think it looks pretty real, still. For a manual mockup.
It still looked real in the theme park too.
Of course, I was probably about 7 or 8 when I saw it, but it was scary.
maurvir posted:Metacell posted:I think it looks pretty real, still. For a manual mockup.
It still looked real in the theme park too.
Of course, I was probably about 7 or 8 when I saw it, but it was scary.
omg same here!
do you remember the fisherman being pulled under the water?
maurvir posted:ukimalefu posted:
Holy crap, I had that exact modem for years! Interestingly, it used a Rockwell DSP chip that was upgradable. By the time I took it out of service, it was capable of doing 33.6kbps. 56kbps required more advanced modem codecs than the hardware could support, so I had to replace it when that became the standard, but that was an unbelievable little modem in its day.
Supra was bought by Diamond. They still sell modems. Made DSL modems for a while too.
https://www.diamondmm.com/product-category/modems/
TOS posted:maurvir posted:Metacell posted:I think it looks pretty real, still. For a manual mockup.
It still looked real in the theme park too.
Of course, I was probably about 7 or 8 when I saw it, but it was scary.
omg same here!
do you remember the fisherman being pulled under the water?
They just tracked a Great White in the Long Island Sound--off the coast of Greenwich CT. First time they ever confirmed one in those waters.
Had this happened when I was a kid, I would not have ever gone swimming in the sound.
ukimalefu posted:
i remember that "digital lifestyle" campaign
at the time i thought, "yeah, okay, steve jobs is a genius"
TOS posted:ukimalefu posted:
i remember that "digital lifestyle" campaign
at the time i thought, "yeah, okay, steve jobs is a genius"
Much more powerful versions of all of those things now fit in your pocket at the same time.
