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Many many years ago I read an observation that men tend to keep unchanged into their later years the hairstyle that they happened to have in the period of the lives when their were the happiest.

I think that probably applies to things other than hairstyle, like storage media :-)

I have tried to analyze about myself in which aspects of life I'm doing the same thing. It's not true for hair/clothing styles or tech. But surely I'm not so unique that I'm immune to this effect? I wonder if this phenomenon can also manifest in more subtle ways, e.g. you keep the slang from the time when you were the happiest, or the ideology, or etc. Might be true about music, I seemed to have stopped evolving in my music taste unless when I put in deliberate effort (which I rarely do, because I don't think it's something worth optimizing form).



Perhaps this explains why I have a collection of over 10 CRT television sets squirrelled away in the various corners of my house…yes, I know it’s a sickness.


Zip drives FTW


Until the click of death. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death

I'm more in favour of MiniDisc. Compact enough, large enough for storage but Sony screwed up with DRM requiring a Sonic Stage, eurk.


Nothing bets a hardrive wrapped in a blanket, in case you accidentally hit or drop the bag you put it in. This is how we did in my university, in late 1990s.


Jazz drives FTL

Literally threw one against a wall to destroy it and never get tempted to use one ever again.

Went back to a 150Mb QIC tape drive for a while thanks to Jazz.

The stuff of nightmares.


Jaz was really that bad? I've been pondering buying a scsi one for my retro PC.


Look up the Jaz drive click of death. It was in a class of its own.


I knew Zip has them, but I've only ever seen 2 or 3 Jaz drives, and they were working fine in the late 90s... Shame really, CF to IDE and bluescsi don't work on every PC.


minidisk or superdisk ftw


i only used a zip drive once or twice. obviously that was decades ago, but in my head they are still the height of computing luxury.


Click. Click. Click.




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