LGR Oddware - Magneto-optical WORM Disc Drive

Once an alternative to high capacity hard drives, this forgotten storage medium has nothing to do with dirt-loving annelids. An overview of WORM and magneto-optical disk drives!

[@Margatroid]

The thing that tripped me out in this video was seeing them run chkdsk on that WORM drive in 1988. I just ran chkdsk myself last week on a totally modern machine because Windows 10 trapped my computer in a boot loop. It's crazy how old the most basic utilities we still use are. OSes are just shells over shells over shells...

[@IAmTheUngod]

A company I worked at had a huge OSCAR with WORM carts in it. At the time is was one of the highest end robot changers on the market. We had to take a OSHA course before we were allowed to work on it. Apparently it had broken 2 arms of people who worked on it before because the safety switches didn't prevent the arm from zipping around the case when the service panels were open. The thing had to be bolted to the floor and it still shook like mad. Man those were the days....technology fought back.

[@TheyRiseBand]

The Air Force used similar systems, at one time. The HP technician I worked with on my jukeboxes had stories of serious injuries occurring from misuse.

[@deusexaethera]

I once heard "technology" defined as "things that don't work properly yet". As an engineer, I am irritated by that definition but I also agree with it. Nobody thinks of tables and chairs as "technology", because they're so reliable and predictable nowadays that they blend into the background unless you accidentally get a defective one. "Technology" is only used to describe things that people expect to be somewhat finicky and unreliable at times.

[@lloydtshare]

Yeah I had the same jukebox, never plug in the scsi when it's on it destroys the controller board lol

[@monad_tcp]

@@deusexaethera technology nowadays = modern web development, because nothing works !

[@monad_tcp]

see how no one calls desktop software tech anymore, that's because native software is 100x more reliable. (as I type this, 99 out of 100 times, there is some little tiny strange locking in the fucking UI of the browser, that never happens in native applications nowadays) fight me web developers , better yet go fix your crap

[@HumorousLOL]

The main benefit to these disks is their reliability and durability. The disks weren't easily destroyed, and you could count for your data to remain intact for years. Good medium for data backups which you need to last.

[@therealmaxspeedster]

"Portable" in 2016 = it fits in your pocket...."Portable" in 1994 = you don't need a dolly to move it.

[@jamesb8305]

So true. The Apple //c and classic mac were "portable" and cases were available from Apple for them.

[@eshneto]

The disc is very portable.

[@justmechanicthings]

Portable" in 1974 = It isn't bolted down.

[@vladtairov2721]

Early portable PCs were called "luggables" for a reason

[@Archangelm127]

The term "luggable" summed up the era pretty well IMHO.

[@Dark.Shingo]

Man, I'm so addicted to your videos. I think I watch at least 3-5 per day!

[@fredflintstone5356]

5 years later after your post and we are still addicted to watching LGR videos.

[@Dark.Shingo]

@@fredflintstone5356 *Nods positively*

[@lennycat7964]

Only 3-5 vids?.... I watch dozens of them at once, I love this old tech as much as clint

[@sillkthashocker]

I like to watch them when I eat my dinner 🙂

[@ismailhafidh]

I know righttt... It's like the nostalgia i never experienced before

[@brideoflister]

These were used in the MRI medical imaging research facility I work in until about 1996. We're legally required to archive data used in research but before burnable CD/DVD actually storing the massive amounts of data used in scanning was quite tricky!

[@eyesofnova]

it blows my mind to think that we now have microsd cards that can store several gigabytes of information after growing up with floppies, zip drives, cdrs, dvdrs, etc etc.

[@tjhill0110]

And don't forget that you can get a portable hard drive the size of a couple of floppy disks that can hold about 3tb+

[@VSigma725]

It amazes me that 20 years ago, 256MB of RAM was considered a lot. My first computer had 512MB and I thought it was a glacially slow pile of shit.

[@spiff2268]

Lol 20 years ago I was taking an intro to computers class at a local community college. One evening we were talking about storage capacities the prof told us all excitedly about how they had just come out with a new external hard drive that could hold up to 1 gig of info.

[@eyesofnova]

spiff2268 lol, really makes you think how much things have changed!

[@spiff2268]

No kidding. And as the hard drives got bigger I was starting to wonder how we possibly fill it up. Now I'm having to delete stuff off the 500 hard drive on my PS4 whenever I get a new game.

[@LGR]

There will be more! The Bernoulli Box, caddy CDs, cassette cartridges, 8" floppies, and more are ready and waiting to be recorded :)

[@GoMetricToday]

I am glad to know I am not the only geek that likes vintage computer hardware and software. I had heard of the WORM drive before but have never seen one let alone working.

[@kayeplaguedoc9054]

"Floptical".... I don't know why but I crack up when I hear that name. Plus it's kind of fun to say. Floptical!

[@RuruFIN]

Sounds as weird as calling larger smartphones as phablets. :P

[@LGR]

It is fantastic, my favorite modern keyboard.

[@rick9021090210]

we never get bored with oddware or hardware reviews... it either makes you learn something new... I mean old... I mean new about old... whatever... or takes you back to the old days... I always wanted to own a sony minidisc player/recorder but they were very expensive back in the days... but they were so awesome...

[@thcoura]

Dude, your voice is genetically engineered for NPR

[@plasmaoctopus1728]

LMAO genetic voice engineering is totally the future.

[@Gazdatronik]

OMG its true. "I'm Melissa Block," "I'm Steve Inskeep," "I'm J. Clint Basinger," "I'm Rammed Ass.."

[@jr2904]

@@Gazdatronik rammed ass made me laugh way more than it should at 30

[@jessicaslater4243]

If they ever need someone to replace Jon St. John for Duke Nukem's voice, they know who to call.

[@stoicvampirepig6063]

@@jessicaslater4243 I don't think that will be necessary, Duke is done.

[@LGR]

Oddware's been going on for about a year and a half, but thanks, glad you're enjoying!

[@RubSomefastOnIt]

so crazy... and here I sit twiddling a 32gig Micro SD in my fingers like its a penny while watching this on a 180 Mbps connection... Thank you to my predecessors for putting up with this kind of thing and driving it forward so i can have these modern conveniences.

[@jameslaidler2152]

CLINT!!! It's interesting to see how far you've come, but also how little you've really changed, just a little less caffeinated and calmer.

[@maltheopia]

Does LGR have any plans to do a review of Steve Jobs' NEXT computer + monitor + etc.? That seems to be the LGR Effect; do a proper review of one cool thing, then have at least one more cool thing you have to expound on that came up.

[@TOASTEngineer]

***** Plus, yanno, the World Wide Web.

[@JordabHawkeye]

TOASTEngineer What's that?

[@antli0ncs]

maltheopia r.i.p steve jobs :

[@WskOsc]

One cool video. I'd never actually heard of the WORM drive before but I recognised the cartridge immediately, having seen one at a car boot sale years ago (just the cart, no drive). Very very cool to be able to actually see the write marks clearly and see the actual drive unit that goes along with the cart. Awesome explanation too, thanks for a great video.

[@andrewkev8544]

You know the times were weird when magnetic diskettes have been more durable then HDDs

[@vivanecrosis]

THAT BEARD!!! I want to live in it! It’s amazing! I’m binge watching LGR. It feels like weird/chaotic time. ✨🙉✨

[@LGR]

Yup, I mentioned those late in the video, along with the Bernoulli Box (which was also developed by Iomega). Very different technology, but a similar idea.

[@MisanthropicDolphin]

You are like a digital museum, and there's nothing wrong with that. Your subject material is fascinating, and you explain it all very well, and I love it. Please keep doing what you do.

[@LGR]

I have been considering doing a video on basic DOSBox setup and usage, along with a more in-depth video on how to setup and/or build your own DOS gaming PC using spare parts. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.

[@RetroArcadeGuy]

Love your Dook Nookm impersonations. Makes the videos way cooler xD

[@LGR]

Haha, thank ya

[@dkire1358]

You had a sweet beard in these older ones...

[@ny5i]

We used disk/drive like this in the Navy in the mid 1990's. They were great because they were reliable, faster than the previous removable media and easier to secure. The drive was actually internal. Fun memories!

[@joshuarichards2421]

I used a WORM drive, in fact, I think it may have been the same model, to backup hard drives for my parents computer repair business in the 90's. I associate that drive with 486dx4's and early Pentiums. Ah, nostalgia.

[@shez666]

Brings back memories, we used to have robotic libraries of these things for archival purposes, up to about 1200 discs in a library. They used to constantly go wrong.

[@TechHippie]

I'm a little upset I missed your bearded period. That was a glorious beard my friend, why do you stay so clean shaven now???

[@BrianPicchi]

Man, that thing is beastly! What a name, too! Phreakindee, your oddware vids are fast becoming my favorite videos on YT. Keep em up! :)

[@AmaroqStarwind]

4:03 ...the... the music. It's Three Wheels Turning. From Unreal.

[@elementalfunk]

Amaroqdricaldari thank you I was dying to know

[@kaylonimalcolm7752]

Amaroqdricaldari Caught that. Haven't heard it in so long.

[@Ashedown]

Had to scroll a lot to find this.

[@measl]

*I remember these, and the Bernoulli Box, as well as the Zip (commented elsewhere). WORMs never found their real niche outside of simple mass backup. The Zip was keeping up with WORM, close enough anyway, and it wasn't a multithousand dollar investment. Once CDs came out though, these guys were history - overnight. The WORM really would have been a hit, had Zip not cut them down during the period of "Zip Drives", Tape drives, or "other R/W or W1Rx" through to CDRW. Super pricey and the cartridges were slow and expensive: I only saw one in an actual computer in 40 years.* *Thanks! This was a really good look at 1st and 2nd gen WORM!*

[@AndyBradley1984]

+1 FOR THE UT'99 MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND :D

[@Bhetacarn]

I had a sony MZ-S1 sports mini disc in high school. I think my sophomore year.. I graduated in 2005. My mom bought my sister her first washer and dryer at sears. I sat there for 2-3 looking at washers and dryers. My mom saw i was jealous and asked if i wanted anything. I said, "Yea this Mini disc player". I think it was 200 dollars.. My sister looks at me says "You do not need that, stop wasting moms money". Ill never forget that. What was cool about the mini disc player, you could rip from anything that had a 3.5mm jack. So other peoples Cd/mp3 players also from radios and other comps. I used mine into senior year until i got a palm pilot. The palm only held half as much music, but i was only listening to half of the tunes anyways. I still used my mini disc for my car that was hooked up to the blank cassette that hooked into any music device w/ a 3.5mm jack.

[@comicsansgreenkirby]

I didn't know Clint had a full beard 6 years ago until now

[@anjachan]

I love those different storage mediums ... very interesting technologies.

[@matsv201]

About casset tape.. it would really be quite easy back in the day put a casset recorder to a modem. Overclock the modem to 4 times, then it would say a 36kBit modem should be able to write 288kBit/s to a casset tape. Should be able to fit easily 120MB to a 90minut casset tape. I never did see products like that. but it should really not be a problem. I expermented with it in the late 90-tys. Took a crappy compact stereo from late 80-tys. Cheap metal tale and used matlab to code a video and a image to sound, then recorded it to the casset deck (via audolinks).. read it back, decoded it and it worked just fine.... It even worked at 48KHz that was kind of surprising to me. Even with a crappy player, and crappy tape (well the tape was a late 90-tys once) it still recorded 48kHz just fine.. Of cause, there is no 16 bit resolution there, but reasonable 8 bit response with a bit of fideling with the EQ So then i thought... well how much frequency can i push in this thing. My audio didn´t go higher than 48KHz... but i did have a video card with RCA output. So it was really just about lowering the resolution, and show a image with very low horizontal freqvency. Well i was to lazy to write a program for it.. But there was a very simple way. Just make a image with low horizontal resolution, show it in low resolution, write it to the casetrecorder, then read it back with the video capture card and se if it was vissible. So for half PAL update it uses 12,8kLines per second. So i know i could probably push frequency of at least 3 alteration per line... probably 4.. But the synk was all f.u. I fiddled a bit with the EQ and realized that if i pushed the double-speed button the synk work just fine. With double speed there was also the possibility of getting twice the freqency on the tape. I didn´t reach the limit with the audiocard but i figgured i would go to at least 96kHz with the video card. And.. yes. yes i did.. i reach 136Khz before it didn´t want to go higher. That is 68Khz on tape. And thats really using only 80-tys technology. (could just as well done it with a CGA grapicscard). Really almost any device of the 1980-tys could av written to a system like that It could also be done with varible speed tape. For instance running the tape slower the slower computer you have.

[@matsv201]

The reason why the WORM have lot higher density than CD is multiple. The most important one is that it can write really narrow tracks and that it uses binary state. So every bit of the track is either a one or a zero. For a CD, its actually not the state that gives the data, but rather the shift. So it have to have a bit of black before the next shift, making it use way more space. The upside to this technology for CD is that its way cheaper to produce. You really just need a laser and a detector. The way the track is made is made so it will give the detector a optimal chance of reading. There is also other odd diffrances. For example the WORM uses sectors and tracks. One track start and end at the same position. While CD uses a spiral path. So a CD don´t have to jump from track to track. When reading a continus stream of data... like music, it just keep going. Also interesting is how the CD is guided. There is a prism split up part of the return beam. This prism splits up the beam in two parts depending on what angle it hits it. This in turn hits to light detectors that calibrate the head one way or a other. This is how the CD is centered in the right track. If the CD jumps, it just finds the very next track, centers on it and keeps going. Its really rather primtive.

[@Kuikkamies]

I started following your channel because of forgotten tech like this. While game reviews etc are interesting in themselves, I'd love to see more of this kind of ~15min videos of hardware.

[@speedytech7]

lol i remember the episode of computer chronicles this was featured on... "Are you ready for the worm drive?"

[@Pillowcase]

this was not boring - one of my favorite kind of LGR video for sure

[@duroncrush]

I did desktop support back when Jazz and Zip drives where hot. IO Mega had terrible support and those drive would die all the time. I hared them. So I ended up liking the LS120 drives, they were so much better, but the just didn't get any love and faded away.

[@Dawwwg]

Because: COMPAQ. But you're right; the Jazz & ZIP drives weren't that reliable in the end & especially the parallel stuff was just terrible, support-wise too probably.

[@OVERKILL_PINBALL]

Love your videos I remember all of the products you review and a nice trip down nostalgia lane (Thank you and keep 'em coming)

[@DarenPage]

Write Once Read Many... Had one in our old school many many moons ago.

[@lordmace2001]

This did not bore me i really like the oddware vids as i always learn something new.

[@LGR]

I do but as I said, I didn't have a system with one out and hooked up at the time :)

[@alexschott9567]

LGR Are you OK?

[@Cooe.]

Lucas Schott *facepalm*. It's a reply to an account that no longer exists. Look at the post date first.

[@drumguy1384]

WORM type drives are still used today in the world of cybersecurity for log backups to ensure that large amounts of logs can be stored for long periods of time without fear of them being altered after the fact. This is very important for forensic analysis and legal reasons.

[@N2EHG]

I think the NeXT optical drive was not worm. You could erase, add, read.

[@tookitogo]

Correct, it was a normal rewritable MO drive from Canon.

[@Eedelia01]

My dad had a tape back up unit that I "fondly" remember him using on my computer to perform a back up. It had to run over night and kept me up with it's droning. I will never forget how long it took to back up back then or that terrible sound.

[@HeadsetGuy]

I'd love to see a review of a caddy. Those things are so intriguing to me.

[@Locutus]

The bank I used to work at, used to use the Panasonic drive. We would back up bank data. As an IT junior, it was my job to backup bank's data to the discs... Such fun times!

[@littlemikey46]

Hey LGR, odd question, but I was curious if you were recording live audio for the first portion of this video? The way your voice sounds it sounds like you recorded the audio separately, but with the way your hands are moving I'd assume you recorded it on the spot.

[@LGR]

I just ad-lib these on the spot live, but my mic was right up close just off screen.

[@littlemikey46]

Lazy Game Reviews Aah that's why it sounds so clear. Thanks ^_^

[@shorty1k]

Damn that thing is cool. I've seen tape drives before, but never one of those! Looks like a NES cart. Man I love your channel, I swear I learn something new with every video.

[@mapesdhs597]

Heh, not really obsolete, MO drives are still in use, mainly in textile factories all over the world.

[@KagusakiUrufu]

I found several of these plus the drive in the dumpster at work a few years ago. Never seen them before so I kept the disc and the drive for my collection.

[@Lunchpacked180]

odd? yes! interesting? yes! oddly interesting? yes. subscribed? yes!

[@naso4265]

Hotel? Trivago.

[@SilviDaBun]

I always like these oddware vids of yours, once again I learned something. Can't say that about many other vids I routinely watch on youtube, so thanks for giving the knowledge-packed vid for today, really enjoyed it.

[@ancientsnox5093]

Good old days. I just use Minidisc now. Basically the same but It's much more compact yet still tactile, feels good in your hand and beautiful to look at. Did I mention they are so much more robust than other old formats and could last you a life time lol...

[@dcflake5645]

Strange they called it a worm when that has another meaning in computing. It's like calling it the virus or the malware.

[@SianaGearz]

L Blair I think the WORM drive appeared in mid 80ies while the first worm as in malicious software appeared in the late 80ies. There was no very serious naming conflict because worm is a standalone program that automatically spreads itself over the network, so they haven't entered public consciousness until this millennium. Before that, a worm was too easy to discover (as opposed to a virus that hides in existing files) and defend against and had little spreading potential, so the interest in them was largely academic, not something individuals and businesses were likely to be confronted with.

[@zyriuz2]

L Blair the malware virus reader..

[@WadWizard]

Worm drive is also the name of a thing with that gear thats like a screw, google worm drive saw.

[@chris-hayes]

the caps help to differentiate

[@lnro4494]

I saw a similar cartridge at my school (now hung on the wall at school) that was the size of a record, and I was in charge of transporting the disk to my woodshop/IT teacher. He was struck with awe when he saw it, and hung it up on the wall as mentioned earlier. It held old health records from a student long ago. Oh, and looking inside of it, it was practically a giant shiny double-sided CD the size of a record.

[@BastienAuxer]

Are we going to get a video about the Caddy cd drive?

[@nilswegner2881]

if you want to see a caddy cd rom drive in action, just search for Commodore cdtv or commodore a570. the both featured this mechanism

[@enriquelopezleon4191]

for some reason I find these oddware videos very relaxing and interesting. it's like travelling a few years back in time. can't wait for the next oddware video

[@levaidaniel]

Wow, what is that beard?! I've never seen your older videos before😲 You age well, I must say! 😄

[@Misstucci]

Thank you for your relatively in depth and thoroughly entertaining explanation,LGR.

[@jwaffe]

What would you think about doing a video about NeXT Workstations?

[@LGR]

I think I'd need to own or have access to one. Which I don't, and I don't see that happening unless something crazy occurs!

[@jwaffe]

Lazy Game Reviews Yeah, from what I've seen on ebay they're not cheap, they're probably not laying around at garage sales. Oh well, thanks anyway.

[@TheAnonymesh]

+Lazy Game Reviews I'd be glad to donate one to you!

[@stephenchandler1132]

+Anonymesh Now that would be amazing, Id love to see his review!

[@joman66]

The video did not bore my brains out. :D I love your oddware/hardware reviews. Keep them up mate!

[@Corbs_vinyl_and_cassettes]

Bring the beard back

[@gutsngorrrr]

I remember using this and all the other strange large capacity drives, because the company I worked for at the time had huge amounts of data they needed storing as off line storage or for long term archiving. So it was amazing seeing how over the years, the ever increasing data amount of data we had was stored.

[@Dorelaxen]

Oh, man, seeing Stewart Cheifet again brings back memories. Now I'm gonna have the Computer Chronicles theme song stuck in my head. I've always wanted to get my hands on the hard drive for my TRS-80 model 1. Cause ya know, 5 MB of memory for 2500 bucks seemed like a good deal...

[@Dorelaxen]

HAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Aww, are you triggered? Do you need a safe space?

[@KevRalph]

New sub, it's interesting to watch your old stuff and watch how much you've "matured" over the years.. lol.. although your humor from back then is pretty funny... Talkin about that tape and taking a dump with it..

[@killshock360]

That sony disk predates the Psp UMD

[@mybigfatpolishlife]

Duh

[@QbertTehKiller]

These videos are like history lessons.. I knew nothing of this old technology.

[@NewYears1978]

I had ZIP drives this looks really similar...except way bigger and more expensive.

[@CaptainXJ]

It reminded me of the Zip drive also

[@LGR]

They have "silent" Das Keyboards as well, which give that same kind of tactile feel without all the noise. Might be worth looking into :)

[@OSDevon]

Hey, June 1994! This thing was born the same month as me!

[@jonowee]

Hearing about Iomega again brought up a memory of bringing to school my Dad's Zip 100MB drive, two discs and the power brick to be able to use the school's CD writer to transfer a Powerpoint presentation in the early 2000's as USB flash drives were still too small, expensive and exotic. From struggling with 100MB Zip discs to today I casually have an 128GB USB thumb(nail)drive attached to my car keys.

[@chrisfratz]

you used to have a beard?

[@davidmills1805]

Like Boos?

[@Tgr2k1]

Yes it was a truly epic beard too. I was (am) kinda jealous of how awesome it was.

[@hanakomisa]

Henlo there chris.

[@RetroGamingWithEdgarRivera]

I wish I had that magnificent beard

[@arifmunop]

Its called Zip Zip drive

[@StAlchemyst]

school (circa 1996) had 2 fundraisers to buy 2 of these for "mass storage" in our computer lab. $2,200 for both the disks were AMAZINGLY expensive. Replaced by a zip drive variant a year after I graduated. The storage size of the bigger disk was pretty amazing fro the time. Only good thing about it.

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

OMG I remember those big ass SCSII and parallel cables form back in the day. There was always something satisfying about pressing the clips in place on those things...

[@colonelwirehead2045]

Bring back the beard in 2019.. :)

[@vancereloaded]

That WORM drive looks pretty neat. This makes me want to hook up my Zip drive and look at what's in my old discs..

[@presidentkiller]

DISCLAIMER: This is the first video more than 5 years old I've seen on your channel, so my opinion is based on this video only. Your own early videos were "odd" in a way. You didn't show your face, you sound excited to show your stuff but in a "I don't want to scare them off" kind of way, and you didn't play AT ALL with camera angles, zooming, etc. You've come a long way, you show more confidence in your more recent videos, and now you seem genuinely excited to share your passion with people. Now I know why you said in a later video that you didn't like one of your older videos, I guess it's because you didn't feel like "you" in them, lol Anyway, keep up the good work.

[@NukTap]

arent magneto-optical discs the same discs used in the N64DD

[@Koutsie]

Jack Newton Pretty sure!

[@WinVisten]

Yes, actually!

[@jubuttib]

Apparently it's a common misconception, often referenced, but Nintendo's own engineering materials only refer to them as magnetic, not magneto-optical. One other MO format would have been the MiniDisc.

[@worldtraveler930]

I Almost totally forgot about those. And that is a Most Excellent Beard that you have got growing their, take it to the ZZTop level.

[@help4343]

$100 for something you could only write on once? Sounds like a horrible deal.

[@ironcito1101]

Writing once can actually be an advantage in some circumstances. Instant and secure protection against tampering. For example, if you want to keep track of stock trades, accounting, or basically any activity log.

[@jubuttib]

Legal agreements, sensitive archives, library materials (so that people using them don't accidentally overwrite anything)... For the home user these aren't that interesting, but for many business and government applications these would have been highly desirable.

[@jamesisaac7684]

This was in early 1980s.

[@kingneutron1]

@@jubuttib Yep, IIRC the WORM drives were All the Rage among the lawyer set for awhile

[@stegomon]

This guy has come a long ways

[@LGR]

thank god

[@DavidChipman]

Should have opened the case to look inside!

[@LGR]

Totally, and if I take another look at this someday I will!

[@DavidChipman]

As a computer engineering guy, I'd live to see the guts of this thing.

[@fiftystate1388]

Hey LGR, another great demo, thanks! If you get the chance to look at DVD-RAM they have hard coded sectors too. I'm a big fan of that medium, DVD-RAM, for a couple of reasons. First, they have a write lifecycle of over 100K operations. Second, I have a Panasonic video disc recorder that can handle them and it acts like a cheapskate DVR, and with a little research it's a snap to move content to my hard drive for editing. With DVD-RAM and that disc recorder there are all kind of features available that -R and -RW won't allow, like pause and record or record and "chasing playback" where you start watching from the beginning after recording has begun, you know, like a cheapskate DVR. Random Access has its advantages.

[@TwoTonTaft]

I'm glad you got better at this. It was damn near 5 minutes in before you even talked about WHAT you had there

[@Dicker296]

So... these are those "MO Disk"s things you needed in Resident Evil games at the umbrella laboratories. ¿right? ¡Disk to the toilet! ¡Disk to the toilet! I wanna see that disk in the toilet. I'm curious.

[@ankokunokayoubi]

MO disks were used mainly in corporations and organizations in Japan for storing information thanks to the durability, portability and capacity. Now you can use external hard disks or maybe private cloud storage instead!

[@hinuk]

would be interesting if you needed to kill some specific zombie, that had written down a password for a dropbox account that contained some needed information/data to proceed onward. then off course you would need to find working computer/smartphone so you could access that cloud account.

[@AngDavies]

I've a feeling those marks are not data, but the means by which the laser finds the sectors/help it seek- DVD-ram has a similar kind of arrangement. Also, a slight nitpick CDs are more a plastic disk coated in metal- the data is encoded by engraving/embossing the plastic, the metal coating is just there to bring that into relief

[@ballisticgamer9107]

dat mini disk #gamecube

[@slawor4]

BALLISTICGAMER Minidisks are not what was used on GameCubes

[@t3hSurge]

custom-made mini DVDs

[@dotcomGone]

I own one of these too. Glad to know a little bit more about this thing I've been lugging around for years!

[@glenwoofit]

take the lid off let's see the engineering.

[@glenwoofit]

+Adis - Ad That's okay as my Internet is so slow I only typed it in 2013.

[@glenwoofit]

+Adis - Ad It took that long to get there.

[@glenwoofit]

+Adis - Ad I upgraded to fiber 2 months ago.

[@dubsy1026]

JustAdrian do you understand the concept of a joke?

[@MarneusAndMilkyBlood]

I know people may have said that countless times already, but I freaking love your oddware reviews ! Thanks a lot !

[@christopherrohr3770]

Mini-discs I remember those back in 90's. The players had that awesome anti-skip technology, they were re-writeable like CD-RWs with CD quality sound, and were going to replace CD's and cassette tapes! Except they never caught on in the U.S. and were replaced by other media.

[@potmej1]

I used to have something similar in the 90s, 100MB rewritable external magneto-optical drive, but it was rewritable which made it great for storage. It had SCSI interface and was really fast. A LOT better then ZIP drives (which I had as well)... good old days :)

[@LGR]

I'd like to eventually! Might be cool to cover both the SuperDisk and Flopticals in a single video, since they use some similar tech.

[@demonic477]

God I miss that show I loved the computer chronicles they always kept us up to date on what was coming out they would have a shit fit trying to keep up now . back when the show ran new stuff came out every few months now it"s every day or every other day.

[@tombert512]

Ah, nostalgia with those datatapes. My dad had stolen a copy of Doom from a friend using one of those datatapes, and since I was young and didn't know how to work such things properly, loading the game took almost an hour. Ah, memories.

[@Yusuke_Denton]

Yay! Oddware! I remember as a child reading in a magazine that WORM drives were the future. It's funny how Sony MD didn't take off in America except with some pros but in Japan they're still popular. I thought they were just little CDs.

[@ewalker3]

These things were pretty common back in the 80’s/90s for the then high capacity storage (I was an I/T Director / consultant for many years) WROM stood for “write once read many”

[@timberwolf88]

How different you dictation and how fluid you speak has changed and gotten better over the years