Colin
colinstu@birdbutt.com
This is way too satisfying.
(Mac Portable ejecting floppy in space)
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(came across this via this also interesting video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc-QRgpUIqU )
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Colin
colinstu@birdbutt.com@m I double taked and then had to roll it back and play it a couple dozen times. “Ok I gotta share this”
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R. L. Dane 
RL_Dane@fosstodon.org
I miss Mac floppy drives.
Especially the pre-1993ish ones before they cheaper out and introduced the "manual inject" ones that required you to shove the floppy all the way into the drive like the PC versions.
Having the floppy just handed to you was such a cool feeling.
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I remember thinking the Jaz drives were such hot stuff.
Then in 2006 I got a 1GB flash drive that was about half the size of an SD card (no metal shield).
It was just one piece of epoxy/PCB somethingorother. I think it might've actually been a proof-of-concept product for MicroSD cards, which came out a little later. It was the first one-piece storage device I'd ever seen. No separate PCB/enclosure/shield, just one piece.
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@RadioAzureus @RL_Dane never experienced Jaz/jazz so I can't speak to it, but SyQuest's "EZ" removable platter cartridge-based systems were a nightmare. Sure it was nice portable storage but holy crap the issues w/it back then. Single spec of dust & the whole thing was ruined. Swapped in a 300MB quantum in that SCSI enclosure eventually.
ZIP was downright reliable in comparison. Really never ran into much click of death issues (at least back then, and don't have it now so can't speak to today).
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@Timpostma @colinstu @RadioAzureus
Well played, sir. XD
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R. L. Dane
RL_Dane@fosstodon.org
Early macs had the best floppy drives. Motorized on both eject and "inject."
Later Mac floppies (after 1992 or so) only had motorized eject. You could tell because there was a cut-out to allow you to force the disk deeper into the mechanism for it to catch the disk.
I don't think the insertion was actually motorized, though, I think it just had some way of grabbing the disks easier. Not sure how exactly that worked.
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and at higher, deadlier velocity!
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