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"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 09/22/2015 at 18:08 • Filed to: None

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Should we include the MiniDisc, DAT, 45 RPM record and 7.5 IPS reel-to-reel? And where is the 8” floppy?

Spaceball-Two > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 09/22/2015 at 18:11

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I had one of these.

Edit: Screw you Kinja

wiffleballtony > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 09/22/2015 at 18:12

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Where is the massive Laser Disc?

mcseanerson > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 09/22/2015 at 18:14

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I saw an eight inch floppy, one time. It was terrifying.

DrJohannVegas > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 09/22/2015 at 18:17

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I don’t know what’s sadder: the faces on those little cartoon media, or the fact that I have equipment to use most of them (and some of the stuff coming up in the comments).

Edit: I don’t have an 8” floppy drive.

Punk_Girl_98 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 09/22/2015 at 18:18

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the first one I’ve never seen but the others I’ve seen before.

DrJohannVegas > Spaceball-Two 09/22/2015 at 18:18

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CLD-1750. Nice machine.

Punk_Girl_98 > Spaceball-Two 09/22/2015 at 18:19

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wow, that’s one big DVD!

Spaceball-Two > DrJohannVegas 09/22/2015 at 18:21

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If memory serves it didn’t work very long. Kept going out of balance on the disk. I think I still have a copy of Terminator 2 in the house somewhere.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 09/22/2015 at 18:21

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As a follow up, here is one of the stacks of old A/V gear I have cluttering up my house, taken just a moment ago:

I’d like to put some of this back to use but I don’t have the space on my desk or A/V equipment rack

HammerheadFistpunch > Spaceball-Two 09/22/2015 at 18:25

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I’ve still got 3, and about 800 discs.

Goggles Pizzano > DrJohannVegas 09/22/2015 at 18:25

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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > mcseanerson 09/22/2015 at 18:33

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Spaceball-Two > HammerheadFistpunch 09/22/2015 at 18:35

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I’ve been tempted to pick one up again for nostalgic purposes but I just don’t need another piece of electronic equipment going unused.

HammerheadFistpunch > Spaceball-Two 09/22/2015 at 18:37

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We use ours all the time to watch kids movies. its fun to think my daughter will be the only person she knows that has seen a movie stop to change sides.

Spaceball-Two > HammerheadFistpunch 09/22/2015 at 18:38

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That’s pretty bad ass. I can’t wait to teach my son to use a record player.

Tohru > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 09/22/2015 at 18:40

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I’m sorry you don’t have an 8” floppy.

HammerheadFistpunch > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 09/22/2015 at 18:45

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So I remember working with all these formats plus:

Minidisc

DAT

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Tohru 09/22/2015 at 18:52

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It may be 8”, but it’s not floppy...

Brickman > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 09/22/2015 at 18:53

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Used floppys a few times when I was 3. I though there was a monster trying to come out the PC when the floppy was in use :P

Boxer_4 > DrJohannVegas 09/22/2015 at 19:06

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I actually still use some of these occasionally...although it’s usually 5.25” floppys rather than 8” floppys.

Why has nobody brought up zip disks yet? I still use those a fair amout.

Chargingstar - E92 M3 pilot > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 09/22/2015 at 19:49

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Dont forget the iOmega Zipdrives!

Dogapult > HammerheadFistpunch 09/22/2015 at 20:05

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If you have any old anime ones you’re not doing anything with....
Nah, I’m kidding, I’ve been trying to find Gunsmith Cats on Laserdisc though.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Chargingstar - E92 M3 pilot 09/22/2015 at 20:09

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C’mon - that was just a glorified floppy. But yeah, it belongs.

If you want to go for something outdated and forgotten, look for a Syquest EZ-Drive (oooh - 135MB on each disc...)

HammerheadFistpunch > Dogapult 09/22/2015 at 20:26

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The guy that my dad bought all these laser disc from for pennies on the dollar had a lot of questionable content that was thrown away before family consumption time. Including a few strait pornos

Dogapult > HammerheadFistpunch 09/22/2015 at 20:55

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I’ve got a Jurassic Park LD that an ex-girlfriend gave me at one point. I had the chance to buy about 40 plus a decent player for $60, but I didn’t have the cash at the time.

HammerheadFistpunch > Dogapult 09/22/2015 at 21:06

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I’ve got the Jurassic park one

DrJohannVegas > HammerheadFistpunch 09/22/2015 at 21:22

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Nauraushaun > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 09/22/2015 at 22:50

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I had a bag of 5 1/4 floppies. That’s as old as I get.

LongbowMkII > HammerheadFistpunch 10/04/2015 at 20:55

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“thrown away”

HammerheadFistpunch > LongbowMkII 10/04/2015 at 21:24

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trust me, no one wanted to see these, calling them b movies would have been kind.