NOPE, i prefer to ask chatGPT for corrections and suggestions :) is much more fun

Владимир, мы большой радость в связи с интернациональность нашего 社区. В следующих смех картинка учитывать перевод для простой рабочий Lin Yung провинция Фуцзянь. Много удар! 👊

Миска риса за наш счёт!

YES!!! Moar weird and obscure disks!! Actually MOAR WEIRD AND OBSCURE EVERYTHING!!! I love this kind of stuff!!! Weird tech is AMAZING!!! - I hope you can do a video on the OPTICAL RECORD!!! (you might know it as the video record, or video on vinyl) lol The YT channel 'Technology Connections' did a who series on it and he dove REALLY DEEP into it.. but you guys could a 5 min video on just that... an occasional deep dive into the really strange formats are, I think, a GREAT IDEA.... maybe do your first series (I think) on weird storage formats... with most of them doing the overview of a few of them, but then once in a while dedicate an entire episode to one really interesting one... like video on vinyl (I'm starting toi think that maybe it wasn't an optical format.. I forget tbh lol... and I REALLY don't want watch Technology Connections' series all over again lol) - I think this channel has GREAT POTENTIAL that you guys just don't use all that much.... oh m,an I would LOVE to be able to give you guys my ideas for 5 minute videos :)

Hey do a vid on Microdrive cf2 cards. I know you know exactly what they are and why theyre cool.

yes please

We get it, you love Anthony. Stop polluting the comment section now, it feels like this has been going on for 5 years

@@laupoke it's my first time commenting something like this, so leave me alone with your complaints 🙏

@@HaroldKuilman good point, but please, do not continue it.

YES YES we need more

Sega even had a Karaoke add on w/ microphone included for the Mega CD (Sega CD) in Japan only.

PC Engine CD Rom/Duo/PC FX, 3DO. FTowns Marty as well

And IIRC, that functionality was the entry point for breaking copy protection on the Dreamcast. Sega went as far as develop their own disc standard (GD-ROM) to store games, and remembered to protect the audio CD mode, but seemingly forgot about the karaoke format.

@@Vitosi4ek1 It wasn't the CD+G standard that served as the backdoor to pirated CDs, but the mil-CD standard, a new interactive audio CD proprietary format that only got a handful of releases, in Japan only. It offered more than just graphics (it could do full motion video, online capabilities, interactive menus etc.)

No really? Asians are into karaoke? No one could expect that!

I think not enough credit is given to Linus for the way he built his company and gathered his talented staff... Some of whom have become front faces we all love to see.

We get it, you love Anthony. Stop polluting the comment section now, it feels like this has been going on for 5 years

@@laupoke how is it polluting the comments by complimenting someone that's come a long way? When Anthony first started presenting videos, you could tell it wasn't his thing. He came off as kind of awkward and unsure of himself. Look at him now, there's a level of confidence in the way he speaks and presents. That should be applauded

I wish he was on camera less. He has a face for radio.

Only his voice could be ok

yes they are, they just had their index on the outer track, and all files that require quick read, because the outer tracks spin faster. thats why you need a modchip, because a dvd writer would write that on the inner tracks

Killed by sticker-shock: The fact that the physical appearance floptical discs was very reminiscent of dirt-cheap HD floppy discs made that price difference an almost impossible sell.

Beggars! LTO tape drives start at 5K, carefully designed not to support old tapes! 😂

Yup, this. I knew about these optical options at the time and would have loved to get one for my home PC, but the cost of the drives and the media itself were what stopped me. I ended up with a Zip drive instead.

We called it a stiffy.. 😂

Yeah, "it wasn't actually floppy" was wrong, the *disk* was floppy… the case wasn't.

Despite the confusion with the HDD, I always referred to them as hard disks, because I'd grown up using the actually floppy 5.25's.

no the 3.5 are called a diskette. not a floppy, and was not a miniaturisation, it's a completely different mechanism, apart from them both being magnetic disks.

Disagree, the diskette was always a diskette and never a floppy. Floppy was just a name the common folk got used to from indeed the 5,25" and 8" floppy disc era, but a definite misnomer by the ignorant and foolish non-techies. The same thing happened with the terms hacker and cracker. A hacker is someone that hacks up hardware to utilize it very differently than intended. A cracked is someone who cracks the security of software to gain entry. Yet common folk, especially morrons on the news, tend to use the term hacker for what is supposed to be a cracker. Just like they used the term floppy for a diskette.

I had a bunch of Jaz drives in college, basically a hard drive with removable platters. They were expensive but they were reliable, never had one go out on me.

I duno if I'm remembering wrong, but also remember the getting super hot

I didn't have any issues with my zip drives. Took them too and fro school in they were thrown around a lot.

we used superdisks in my high school CAD class, 10x more fragile than zips as they were the same form factor as normal 3.5" floppys

Zip drives never lived up to their promise because of that fragility: it's not like you *expected* your disc and/or drive to be "committing suicide" just by being used.

I mean superdisk was basically the same technology as floptical afaik, just higher capacity.

@@markrathgeber9858 Fair enough.

I used LS120s too! I thought that was going to be the new standard.

we still use LS120s in my office. IDE adapters galore but you can't beat em for all around backwards compatibility . they need to start making them again. they are perfect for flashing the BIOS and older applications that demand a floppy but forgot the actual size of a floppy.

@@blooddiamond5396 Wow, I had a friend with an LS-120, but I haven't seen it for a quarter of a century.

same - no buffer underrun protection either - if another program started doing heavy HDD access, drive lost the data stream and you got a coaster

I had to wait to be given a hand-me-down burner. By this point some personal CD players could read WMA files so I could get loads of albums onto one disc at 128kbps! 😂😂😂 My whole music collection was pirated off borrowed CDs ripped in Windows Media Player. So young and dumb lol.

I paid $300 for mine, I was an early adopter. The blank disks were super expensive too.

I used to record video game music on cassette tapes. When I had access to a CD burner in 1996, I was floored. I hooked the consoles to the PC and made CD-quality recordings and my own video game music audio CDs. This was when CD-Rs cost $10 each and had actual gold plating. Those CDs still work to this day.

@@mattsword41 I remember I had a junk one and one of my friends had just come back from store with a game he bought. I was going to put it in to my computer, but I snuck the CDR on top, pretended to stumble and drop the disk. I stepped on it perfectly and the metal flaked off all over the place. The look on his face was priceless.

I was there Gandalf. I was there 3,000 years ago.

That'll be a 5 second video. It lost simply because Sony included a Blu-Ray player in the PS3. The PS3 was cheaper than standalone blu ray players at the time, so it was a no brainer. Easy market share boost.

I would actually like a deep dive on that. There was so much buzz in the day regarding this, the Microsoft vs Sony battle would be a good segment.

When I went to Uni in the late 90s all the lab PCs had SuperDisk, super handy to have that one disk that had all my course work on it

LOL

Yeah, if you are reading dicks in titles, thats more telling about you than anything. #freudian

Same

Gross lol

lol 🤦‍♂️

@ king.arobertson

Thank you for your comment. I owned three Floptical drives a long with 3M and IOmega 21mb Floptical diskettes. I decided to sell them recently because my 144mb Caleb it diskette and 200mb Sony HiFD diskette drives use standard IDE interfaces. The 240mb SuperDisk uses USB which is my current favorite.