what is it ?

eddy · Post by **eddy** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:57 pm

my nephew asked me what is it ?

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:02 pm

It's actually "high density" hehe

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:10 pm

it's an outworn Datacarrier with 1.44MB capacity...
*jiggles* 1.44MB... ridiculous, I can get 1GB for a fiver... so what?

who knows these:

[edit] shit, wrong picture, they have a hotlink-blocker.
[edit2] better?

Mistrel · Post by **Mistrel** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:01 am

I can't wait until flash drives are ubiquitous enough to be thrown/given away.

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:03 pm

Where do you put it? I don't have a slot on my computer that'll take it so it can't be computer related!

DarkDragon · Post by **DarkDragon** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:09 pm

Derek wrote:Where do you put it? I don't have a slot on my computer that'll take it so it can't be computer related!

Harr harr!! I have one. They cost about 5 euro.

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:33 pm

@Kaeru: I have one of those but it is about 10" (23cm?) on each side! marked IBM

I have smaller ones that make my Atari 800XL go Ding!

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:54 pm

yes, those are even older.

I also remember the Cards....

they were used for programming linewise or entering data linewise.
a program was a set of hundereds of cards these days.
it was sheer hell when the got in wrong order...
I was a little boy then, but my father was programming an IBM-Mainframe in the 70ies.

and in the early 80ies we used simple music-cassettes as magtape for the C64.....

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:02 pm

I still have some cards and some paper tape somewhere - for an ICL2904!!

http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acd/ga/p001.htm

Foz · Post by **Foz** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 6:25 pm

I have an Abacus! I admit that it's not the latest far-eastern model, but it does the job as a paperweight.

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 6:43 pm

yeah, an Abacus is cool, timeless in it's functionality.

also a slide rule is a handy thing, if you can handle it.

Imagine, you are stuck somewhere in Africa, your batteries of your pocket-calc are low,
you have no power-supply for your laptop, but you need to calculate the tubes for an irrigation-system...
you would be glad to have a slide rule...

Foz · Post by **Foz** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 6:47 pm

*foams and twitches at the power of... the slide rule!*

ts-soft · Post by **ts-soft** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 6:56 pm

eddy wrote:my nephew asked me what is it ?

It's a earring

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:01 pm

It's all you need to build a model starship Enterprise.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Starship- ... loppy-Disk

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:19 pm

...the "warnings" section is written for Americans, isn't it?

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