Things the next generation simply won't understand

[jeff43]

How about a rotary dial phone and party lines.

[analog_kidd]

These were short lived, and intended to replace floppies. 100mb seemed massive at the time. Now you can get 1000's of times that capacity on a tiny thumb drive

[Snaveba]

1 hour ago, analog_kidd said:

These were short lived, and intended to replace floppies. 100mb seemed massive at the time. Now you can get 1000's of times that capacity on a tiny thumb drive

I think I have one of these disks around somewhere with a bunch of The String Cheese Incident live music. I probably can’t ever get it off at this point. 

[NoBanStan]

3 hours ago, analog_kidd said:

These were short lived, and intended to replace floppies. 100mb seemed massive at the time. Now you can get 1000's of times that capacity on a tiny thumb drive

ah the old iomega. Those were legit when they first hit the market.

[NoBanStan]

For the old school techies.

[NoBanStan]

[NoBanStan]

[NoBanStan]

This won't be America's dad..... nor would we want to have them go back and watch it. What a shame...

[NoBanStan]

Kids will never know who shot JR

[ArmyBrat61]

3 minutes ago, NoBanStan said:

Kids will never know who shot JR

No, but they could dream.......

[KahrMan]

5 hours ago, analog_kidd said:

These were short lived, and intended to replace floppies. 100mb seemed massive at the time. Now you can get 1000's of times that capacity on a tiny thumb drive

Zip drives brings back some memories.  Back when we had a printing company we loved how easy zip drives made it to transfer files between our graphics department and the client.  They did not last long but man were they great when they first came out.

[Sleep profit]

1 hour ago, NoBanStan said:

Kids will never know who shot JR

I remember we had a home football game on Friday night the bleacher were normally fully  when I looked up in stands haft the people had left. I asked someone he said the finally was tonight  I had no clue lol 

[ac3boyz]

[bubbadavis]

4 hours ago, NoBanStan said:

For the old school techies.

This isn't old school - 100 MHz was blazing fast and high tech back in the day. I thought my 12 MHz 286 was fast at one point. 

[Johnny Rotten]

SOS.

 

 

 

[peejman]

8 hours ago, analog_kidd said:

These were short lived, and intended to replace floppies. 100mb seemed massive at the time. Now you can get 1000's of times that capacity on a tiny thumb drive

These enabled my grad school research. The data files I generated were too big for floppies and I had no other way to transfer the data from the DAQ to a computer I could analyze the data on. 

[ac3boyz]

[ac3boyz]

[jeff43]

8 minutes ago, ac3boyz said:

I still have some of those somewhere, they are in a square container made out of some type of cardboard .

I found a picture of what it looks like.

Edited February 8 by jeff43

[KahrMan]

25 minutes ago, jeff43 said:

I still have some of those somewhere, they are in a square container made out of some type of cardboard .

I found a picture of what it looks like.

My grandma had the square container of lincoln logs.  Loved going over to her house and playing with them.

[Hozzie]

On 2/7/2024 at 2:36 PM, NoBanStan said:

I have the entire set of those around here somewhere.  

[Hozzie]

The original.  I still have my uncles from the 50s or 60s.   I used it as a kid as well.  
 

[KahrMan]

Who here had a chemistry lab.  I always thought that was pretty cool.  The one I had was similar to this one:

 

[Darrell]

1 hour ago, Hozzie said:

I used it as a kid as well.  

OH MY!  You could have cut your finger on a sharp edge, contracted lock jaw and DIED! Thank goodness that you survived it!  (I survived mine as well, but it's been long-gone for half a century plus)

Edited February 8 by Darrell

[Tuffus]