That's interesting, thanks. I'm retarded when it comes to computer technology specifications.

[Rob Instigator]

I uased to love fucking with the floppies back in the day, tearing them apart to see how they were made.

In fact I always imagined floppy disc drives were all the same.

there were also zip drives, which stored around 120 mb or something. I think if you relase music on them it will be heard not by too many people.
some IT friend also told me that these type of disks were the most unstable ones. dataloss par excellence
on the opposite almost all 20+ year old disks from my C64 are still working and are readable. lets see how much of my Cds/Dvds will work at that age...

[_slavo_]

i still have some casette tapes filled with games for my ancient Atari 800 XL, which I still have hidden behind the couch. I'm wondering if they'd be still readable.

cassettes are sturdy as hell.
I think all those old formats are pretty tolerant to corrupt data because they arent written that dense like Dvds or bluerays.
its like:
01010110
compared to:
010101101001101010010101010101010010101

if you got a scratch or a corrupt something with the size of:
-----

Some major record labels used to give promo cartridges of their albums to journalists in the 70's. That's another format I like, as well as minidisc. I'm kind of sad the minidisc disappeared.

[_slavo_]

Yes, minidiscs were very interesting. Portable, small and had this cool artwork on them.

Slavo, start the usb pen scene.

exactly!If I had to choose my favourite media format, it would be minidisc. it got a pretty good sound quality plus a kickass design. I really like the size of it and that it looks like the most dansome disk ever made.
My MD player is still my allday mobile music source.
also the editing, renaming, etc. features are great.
it hasnt disappear completely, sony introduced the Hi_MD format one or two years ago. they are looking almost the same, got a storage capacity of 1GB and are playing all old MDs too. (and they get rid of that stupid only one way data transfer limitation (Sony))

I think there was a time where musicalbums were sold on MDs parallel to Cds, only in japan I guess.

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Slavo, start the usb pen scene.

in germany the Hip Hop Artist "Kool Savas" released an album on SD Flash Cards

[ZEROpumpkins]

How about the demoscene? That's the impression I got when I read this title.

[demonrail666]

A lot of the drum & bass scene in the 90s was totally built around DATs. I remember spending a fortune on a DAT recorder, about a week before the format became almost totally obsolete with the introduction of CD-Rs. I still have loads of tracks on DAT tapes, but nothing to play or retrieve the data stored on them.

do the demoscene got any distinct kind of media?
I thought they just realease it digital or like an intro to the cracked software they cracked ?!

One thing i also always liked about these formats is the fact that the artwork and packaging is more open to the imagination. I never liked how the artwork is packaged in virtually all CDs. Vinyl is a different story.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

A lot of the drum & bass scene in the 90s was totally built around DATs. I remember spending a fortune on a DAT recorder, about a week before the format became almost totally obsolete with the introduction of CD-Rs. I still have loads of tracks on DAT tapes, but nothing to play or retrieve the data stored on them.

If you've got a recorder, you've probably got an out - if you've got an out, you can probably get an out>USB. Innit?

Originally Posted by al shabbray

in germany the Hip Hop Artist "Kool Savas" released an album on SD Flash Cards

that's interesting. again.

[Rob Instigator]

adapters adapters adapters

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

adapters adapters adapters

stereo cables stereo cables and yes adapters.

[viewtiful_alan]

Weirdness for the sake of weirdness. At its core: dumb.
Novel and amusing, but dumb.

[SYRFox]

let us develop the cardcore scene
where artists only release their music via punched cards