Back in the day, in my fledgling graphic design days, I used a Syquest drive for image storage. I think they were 44 and possibly 88 MB each and about the size of a small plate.
Of course back then, Photoshop 2.0 only had one undo, so if you messed up it had to be trashed and started over. Good times.
@ACraigL Those were previous to the zip disks? I started working with those, but were very impractical coz hardly anyone had readers for those discs, they were very unpopular at least in my country
@NathanielF Yes, pre-dated Zip drives for sure! Syquest was very slow and prone to read errors. Zip drives were the spiritual successor to the floppy, IIRC.
Cleaning up in my basement last weekend, I found the duffle bag that was (technically still is) my collection of stuff downloaded from BBSes… mostly ~500 1.44MB 3.5" DSHD floppies… but also ~50 1.2MB DSHD 5.25" floppies… I should pull out some old drives and see if any of that old por… er… files is any good.
<old man rant>
kids these days don’t realize how easy they have it with the internet instantaneously available at their literal fingertips whenever and wherever they want. Why, when I was their age we had to work for our illicit media, dagnabbit!
I still remember back in the early internet – when MIDI files were the way we shared and collected music – discovering this new media format call the “MP3”. I could just download a song instead of buying it on CD or cassette!?!
But our home computer was too slow to play this mystical new file… so I had to download it on the family computer overnight, winrar the file to split it onto a half dozen floppy discs, and then seruptitiously reassemble it all back together on my dad’s work computer to listen to the track (and then immediately delete the file and player [was it winamp?] Before I got caught messing around with his machine).
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I remember those! Those are from the late 1900’s!
Back in the day, in my fledgling graphic design days, I used a Syquest drive for image storage. I think they were 44 and possibly 88 MB each and about the size of a small plate.
Of course back then, Photoshop 2.0 only had one undo, so if you messed up it had to be trashed and started over. Good times.
Also, I’m old. Definitely not vintage.
@ACraigL Those were previous to the zip disks? I started working with those, but were very impractical coz hardly anyone had readers for those discs, they were very unpopular at least in my country
@NathanielF Yes, pre-dated Zip drives for sure! Syquest was very slow and prone to read errors. Zip drives were the spiritual successor to the floppy, IIRC.
I like these…
Cleaning up in my basement last weekend, I found the duffle bag that was (technically still is) my collection of stuff downloaded from BBSes… mostly ~500 1.44MB 3.5" DSHD floppies… but also ~50 1.2MB DSHD 5.25" floppies… I should pull out some old drives and see if any of that old por… er… files is any good.
/giphy renewed-flawed-goose
I like these too. Wonder how many more t-shirt orders can arrive before my wife starts silently discarding other shirts when I’m not looking?
Edit: Oops, saved from answering that question by the sizes. No 4x in maroon shirts.
<old man rant>
kids these days don’t realize how easy they have it with the internet instantaneously available at their literal fingertips whenever and wherever they want. Why, when I was their age we had to work for our illicit media, dagnabbit!
I still remember back in the early internet – when MIDI files were the way we shared and collected music – discovering this new media format call the “MP3”. I could just download a song instead of buying it on CD or cassette!?!
But our home computer was too slow to play this mystical new file… so I had to download it on the family computer overnight, winrar the file to split it onto a half dozen floppy discs, and then seruptitiously reassemble it all back together on my dad’s work computer to listen to the track (and then immediately delete the file and player [was it winamp?] Before I got caught messing around with his machine).
Good times…
</old man rant>
@Turken and seeing the top third of a picture come through and cancelling it because you’ve seen that one before.
@djslack @Turken And the stunning breakthrough that was progressive GIFs.
Tempted by the floppy disk one… but it would have been even more epic if the label had “Don’t Copy that Floppy” written on it…
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!
Mediocritee this is awesome! Thanks for the spot to show my work!
POPSOCKETS! COURT DOCKETS! FOLK ROCK HITS! AWESOME!
It really should say “Don’t You … Forget … About Me”
2 memes in 1
/giphy easy-conventional-rain
