Whats this?

My youngest son, who is 6 walked in today and asked me, "hey Dad whats
this" Holding a VHS tape of some Anime film I had collected and put
away in a box when we moved.

I was like "HA Ha Ha Ha, That is a VHS Tape, it has a movie on it." He
replied "Oh like a DVD, can we watch it, how will we get it in the tiny
hole dad?" I laughed and said " well it requires a VHS player son, but
we dont have one any more." He was quick to say, "Oh can we buy
one then, I want to see the movie." I had to reply, "well, maybe
your grandmother will let us borow hers, lets go call her and find out."

I cant wait till he finds all the robotechs I have on Beta tape out there.. Thats gonna be a bit harder to watch.

Its already beginning.. soon no one will remember VHS as a recording
media.. My Uncle still have the orignal DVD's the big record
sized gold disk.. and a player in his room.. now thats classic.

Yeah, I feel pretty snobby saying this, but I can't even watch VHS
anymore. I have a tape of the original Batman and I can't believe
people used to watch that crap, the quality was so bad. Progress rules.

Hehe, my VHS player still works (although it jams sometimes :sad: ).

I still have a bunch of 5 1/4" floppy disks at my parents' place. I bet most of you wonder why floppies are called floppies when the 3 1/2" disks are actually very rigid.

My dad has used one of those huge 16" floppy disks made by IBM before.

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I got ya beat.. I have some huge floppies I dont know the size.. but the device it was put it had a flip top and it was set in place. and even Punch Hole cards from White Sands Missle Range, N.M. My mom worked at a Calibration lab there, and she would bring home boxes full of them. we used them to make Christmas weaths and Barbi houses for my sister, yeah and me some too.. when you have an older sister you tend to play there games when your little.

The stuff my Grandmother had in her attic.. =)

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You mean your uncle has laser discs? They were really big in Hong Kong, rental places usually only had laser discs (the big gold vinyl sized discs in the sleeves).

Crazy isn't it... I wanna know whats coming after CD Discs... The whole evolution of vinyl -> Tape -> CD -> DVD 5.1 Audio -> ?

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Crazy isn't it... I wanna know whats coming after CD Discs... The
whole evolution of vinyl -> Tape -> CD -> DVD 5.1 Audio -> ?

Peanuts with computer chips. Eat a honey roasted on the airplane and enjoy 9 hours of LOTR.

Crazyness I tells ya! They better release the original transformers series' on peanut.

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I still have a bunch of 5 1/4" floppy disks at my parents' place.

Ahh, these:



I still have mig29 fulcrum and boulder-dash on one of these babies :biggrin: . They were 2 of my first dos games. Fond memorieeees.

I wanna see one of these mysterious 16inch floppies satchmo speaks of...

edit: Oh I gets ya... Your dad used a 16inch floppy :razz: Well endowed...

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I've got an old 360K 8" disk and a tape drive gathering dust somewhere.

I also have a 486DX2/66 with local bus VESA graphics and an AWE64 sound system which I still use. It cost $3000... back then, anyway.

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Oops, I was wrong. It wasn't 16 inches. It was 8 inches.

Here is the link.

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8 is still above average :razz:

Sorry, have to do the Orph humour in his absence!

Tape drives are pretty damn good btw, they hold around 2Gb of data per tape! Also Foxpup, I beat doom 3 in about 2 days, I think its getting more common for people to play it constantly till they finish it :razz:

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Talk about old media, I have an old hard drive from very long ago that is actually almost as big as most monitors. We have it at work in the "old tech museum." We also have a chip of RAM that is as big as the Voodoo5 video card (remember those?) or for those who dont know what that looks l;ike, its about half the size of a modern full size ATX motherboard.

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Myrk- said:
Crazyness I tells ya! They better release the original transformers series' on peanut.

lol :smile:

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They better release the original transformers series'

That's how I learned English back in 1986. I didn't speak a word of English when I came to the U.S., and Optimus Prime taught me everything I knew.

Which transformer did you have as a kid? I had "Hund". It's the jeep. I felt sad when I found out my Mom had donated it to her students.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

They better release the original transformers series'

That's how I learned English back in 1986. I didn't speak a word of
English when I came to the U.S., and Optimus Prime taught me everything
I knew.

Which transformer did you have as a kid? I had "Hund". It's the
jeep. I felt sad when I found out my Mom had donated it to her students.

Lol that's a great story. I didn't grow up with the original tranformers. When I was a kid they had the cgi one.

I had that the tape deck dude, with the little tape that turned into a bird.. Man I loved that tpy.. I also got the red and Whit plane, it was a spitting image of the robotech Veritechs.. A friend of mine stole him. =(

lol and you think youve got lots of 5 and a half inch floppies:



all for the bbc micro :biggrin: and theyre great games!!!

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Which transformer did you have as a kid? I had "Hund". It's the jeep. I felt sad when I found out my Mom had donated it to her students.

I had the one that turned into a jet carn't remember his name I totaly killed it aswell it was in two pices when I lost it.

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tape deck dude

What was his name? Sonic Boom or something like that? And the tape didn't turn into a bird. It turned into a leopard or panther or something with four legs. My cousin had that one.

The red and white plane? That was Air Guardian. I dreamed of owning him during my entire childhood, but it never happened. By the time I made enough money to buy him myself, I've lost interest in toys. I bought myself PC games instead.

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Heck where I live, VHS is still a commonly used player! I use it more than the DVD to record TV shows.

Funny that your son doesn't know what it is :S

habboi said:
Heck where I live, VHS is still a commonly used player!

idd, how else would you record something from tv. Unless you all have DVD burners or a Media Centre or something ?? :x

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