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...

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@Keullo-eFIN]

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

[@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.

[@StuartSmyth]

Love these kind of videos showcasing computer tech of yesteryear and your humorous way of presenting it makes it epic! Love LGR!

[@jannickliche7080]

The good old LGR videos! It was a pleasure to watch it again

[@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.

I really like the protectional factor the plastic case gives to the actual disk. I would like to have that on optical disks.

[@LGR]

They had them at one point! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddy_(hardware)

Lazy Game Reviews Holy shit. I need this!

[@RicardoCon94]

+Lazy Game Reviews wow, that looks like a UMD. Maybe that's what they're based on.

[@Zephyrian1st]

i wouldnt mind that but it would be such a big chang in the future if it ever did work

Game Goofs Drives for those exist and if you want to use the disc without the caddy, just take it out of there.

[@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)

[@drtwo]

Mister lgr I've actually been a fan of your channel for quite a while and you and other KZbinrs are people who I rely on to get information about technology and when things go awry and I just got to say keep up the good work

[@LGR]

It is fantastic, my favorite modern keyboard.

[@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.

[@LGR]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@andrewkev8544]

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

[@cMaXeJIJIo]

Dude, you have the most informative and interesting, not exclusively gaming, channel I've seen yet! I love almost all your videos! I also really dug the DRM History vid-fantastic!

[@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...

[@Pillowcase]

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

[@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?

[@DisrespectfulOtter]

maltheopia r.i.p steve jobs :

[@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.

[@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! :)

[@joman66]

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

[@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.

[@AndyBradley1984]

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

[@lordmace2001]

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

[@vivanecrosis]

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

[@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???

[@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.

[@Misstucci]

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

[@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

[@comicsansgreenkirby]

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

[@HeadsetGuy]

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

[@LGR]

Actually used to, yeah. From an old HP. That was a long time ago, and I'm not sure if I still have it in storage or if it was left behind last time I moved.

[@KevBehindACamera]

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..

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@MarneusAndMilkyBlood]

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

[@speedytech7]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 ^_^

[@Lunchpacked180]

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

[@naso4265]

Hotel? Trivago.

[@spikettp]

i really love your oddware videos! keep it up :)

[@UwUSanime]

Much like you voice your videos are timeless

[@DarenPage]

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

[@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!

[@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...

[@dotcomGone]

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

[@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.

[@mapesdhs597]

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

[@quesotaichou168]

You’re really the coolest person. Seriously dude.

[@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.

[@levaidaniel]

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

[@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

[@RoomCleaningStop]

Really interesting stuff, definitely would like to see more videos about older or just not so common storage formats in the future.

[@UltrawideBenchmarks]

Loving the new series!

[@NewYears1978]

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

[@CaptainXJ]

It reminded me of the Zip drive also

[@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?

[@anjachan]

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

[@jaxnean2663]

I am learning a lot from your great videos, please make videos of the other three storage mediums you mentioned in this video.

[@OSDevon]

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

[@Corbs_vinyl_and_cassettes]

Bring the beard back

[@MrVenom1974]

Really cool video - never heard of this piece of hardware!

[@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.

[@killshock360]

That sony disk predates the Psp UMD

[@mybigfatpolishlife]

Duh

[@colonelwirehead2045]

Bring back the beard in 2019.. :)

[@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!

[@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!*

[@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

[@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.

[@yoitired]

Love the spacy UT music in the background, makes me want to go play it.

[@evoGage]

Very interesting stuff, definitely do more of these!

[@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.

[@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.

[@winfr34k]

Great. Your videos about Oddware are awesome :P

[@GuitarAudiologist]

I think this stuff is interesting too. I've really been digging your channel for the last few hours while working on a PC. Thanks, and may I request more of these oddware vids.

[@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

[@ballisticgamer9107]

dat mini disk #gamecube

[@slawor4]

BALLISTICGAMER Minidisks are not what was used on GameCubes

[@t3hSurge]

custom-made mini DVDs

[@mylesl2890]

always loved the clunking noises and the jet engine like sounds my drive made on the NeXT it was also practical since those disks were much cheeper for the storage NeXT was a lot of fun

[@spankymcnolan1]

I hope you make some more of these vintage computer and video game videos, that's what attracted me to this channle and made me subscribe in the first place

[@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?

[@LGR]

That it is! Love that thing.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@stegomon]

This guy has come a long ways

[@LGR]

thank god

[@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 :)