Beepster


Remember Zip Disks and how they were the shiznit for a few years? lol... glad I never invested in one of those drives. Those things sure didn't stick around long.

they were handy compared to the EZ drive I have, they were used for DTP and samplers.. nothing bad about them..
you have to think , samplers were 32 meg etc.. so it was to scale of them vs 3.5's

I still own 5.25's / 3.5's / ez and zip carts  and even the 3.5 's have their uses still (bios reflashing etc)


the things that "kept" the best... 30 year old tapes for 8 bit computers, where disks / cd's / floppy's have long failed.

Yeah, newer does not always equate to better. I have a feeling Zip disks were more expensive to manufacture though as well as those old tape cartridges. The tape based stuff was waaaay before my time though. The only stuff I saw that for in my short time in the PC scene was back up systems.

I remember when PC memory was $100 per MB...not GB but MB :) .

Dang I'm old....LOL.

My brother wrote the floppy disk format software for the BBC model B..  Was it 5.25", I can't remember?
 
It used to play Beethoven's Fifth if it worked, and the funeral march if it didn't..

My first computer was a Commodore 64 back in 1983. It came with a cassette deck and some programs took upwards of 10 minutes to load. I used to write programs in assembly language, convert it to hex and then to decimal, which I loaded into memory via POKE statements. I remember getting a drum sequencer for it called Dynamic Drums and it was awesome. The SID music chip was a legend, and I have fond memories of listening to game music over and over. Some of the C64 game music by Rob Hubbard was incredible - check out One Man And His Droid on YouTube. 

@Ted... Ya, man. I avoided computers completely until about... oh I guess about ten years ago (yeesh... it's been that long? lol... gettin' old too I guess). One of the main reasons was they were just so prohibitively expensive and complicated for very little benefit to me. I even wrote songs about my Neo-Luddite sentiments back in the day. However as things got less expensive and I was forced to use them more and more at work and they started doing things that were actually useful to ME I slowly changed my tune. I still kind of hate the buggers but at least I can see their usefulness now so the learning curve and expense are worth it. Seriously if you guys knew me even 3 or 4 years ago you'd think I had suffered some kind of head trauma from my sheer lack of intelligence in regards to computers.

Heck... even reading my posts from a few months ago makes me cringe. lol 

So have any of you guys used Kinetic? Is this just garbage? I won't bother installing it if it is.

I remember my brother building one of the first home computers, was it called a UK101?
 
My first computer was a ZX81, with 1k of memory.  He built me a 4k expansion pack for my birthday.  Sinclair released a 16k expansion pack, but that was insane - what could you possibly need 16k for?
 
Sorry to go off topic, Beep..   Nostalgia..

Heheh... not off topic at all. It was a boring question which is why I asked for tales of relics as well to spice it up. This is awesome. ;-)

lol... stupid filter.