Oops, correction, I thought for sure I still had one of those disks and sure enough when I found it it's not the minidisc as described here. It's actually a Fuji Film LT-1 2 inch diskette looking thing. Still, they were hard to find and expensive back in the day.

What?? LOL

After 49 years in space Voyager 1 is close to a light day away. Wow, we need to come up with better propulsion technologies if we ever plan to colonize just our own solar system alone.

Looks like I need to dig that older beater 68 GTO out of my grandfather's barn and get to welding some serious metal to it. Shit, I have no idea how to install a blower on an engine.

Amen!

LOL, you do realize that was not a documentary right? I do realize however it looks like we are heading in that direction.

I thought Microsoft invented that?

To opt out you need to enter your phone's advertising ID, something that can't be retrieved without some third party app. Fuck your opt out! Fuck you Nevada. Fuck you Fog. Bull shit all around. Louis Rossmann will posting a video in 3..2..1.. I didn't spend 6 years in the Marine Corps to defend this sort of surveillance horse shit.

Oh yeah, in my experience I would say at least a 20% to 25% failure rate.

My father had a friend with a TRS-80 Model I that had a stringy floppy. I asked my dad to get one until he told me how much they cost. Another year of cassette tapes until we finally purchased some external 5.25" diskette drives. 160KB per diskette! WooHoo!

You should have played the lottery. I don't know of anyone that didn't have nightmares about the "click..click..click". Every single time I inserted a ZIP cartridge I held my breath.

I had a weird Zenith laptop at one time that used those minidiscs. They were very expensive and hard to find.

In the very early 90s I did some contract work for Eveready Battery. They were using 56K leased lines to connect to the corporate server (in Cleveland I believe) for off-site files and storage. Man that had to be expensive at the time.

The drives have a button on the front you would press and the mechanism in the drive would eject the cartridge.

When I was hired for my first sysadmin job I was shocked to find that the former admin was using either 20MB or 50MB Bernoulli cartridges (I don't remember which size exactly) as a backup solution for the Netware server. Those Bernoulli cartridges were very expensive. I quickly installed a tape backup solution so I could maintain three backups on-site and off-site.