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Nostalgia

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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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The original was posted on /r/nostalgia by /u/singleguy79 on 2024-05-03 04:24:44.

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[–] ikilledlaurapalmer@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No love for SyQuest round here?

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You have to be a) old enough to have been working with very expensive machines in the late 80s and early 90s, but b) not so old that you're a complete luddite.

I was in newspaper publishing, so yeah, I went through a 44, 88 and EZ135 drives. Zip 100s might not have been as quick, but they were a lot cheaper and they seemed more ubiquitous, where Syquest was kind of a crapshoot.

I have one in return: do you remember:

  • the LS120 drive?
  • Magneto-optical drives?
[–] ikilledlaurapalmer@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Holy shit, magneto-optical. Never had a drive, but I remember thinking it sounded so high tech.

You may have stumped me with the LS120. Ima have to look that one up.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

(Alt text: a photo of a yellow Famicom Disk System game disk labeled The Legend of Zelda in Japanese)

[–] QuantumStorm@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I kept so much porn on them to hide it from my parents haha.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I do remember hearing about the PowerMac G3 (the blue one) that supported Zip disks. That's all I remember about them, unfortunately.

[–] AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My old PMG3 (beige, the first one) came with a Zip drive. I still have that machine, and the Zip drive in it still works.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Good to know

[–] jadedwench@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Memory unlocked! I thankfully never had any issues with them. I too called flash drives zip disks for a while, but eventually stopped.

[–] Mint_Raccoon@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago
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