FLOPPY DISK STORAGE IN A PORTABLE CAMERA! OMG!
- Do you wish you had the opportunity to buy one of the most famously indestructible phones of the aughts? It’ll cost you only $75. This Walmart may have been ahead of its time and just a little overpriced, since another company is re-introducing this famous model of Nokia and will charge around $60 for it.
God damn I love everything about this article.
Here you go francopoli, the 8bit guy did a review on that thing a few months ago. And if you liked this, you might like Lazy Game Reviews trips thrifting (mostly at Goodwill). I love these videos, there's something therapeutic about it, like shopping with a friend. LGR Thrifts: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbBZM9aUMsjEM76RFMofBZmDBuqNPnCdt
I love LGR. One of my favorites is his unboxing of an IBM Model XT 286.
Well, if it was much much much cheaper I'd actually find a use for this: I like to have a few disposable, cheap flash drives on hand in case I need to present something, transfer files to somebody, or get something printed at a shop. If I don't get it back, no big deal, and I don't want people pawing through or seeing files on a drive that I'd regularly use. A while back I bought a super-cheap ten pack of these for precisely that purpose.
Yea I have a stack of these that I keep on hand for the docs. We get packs of stuff like these five packs of 8GB thumb drives for $25 and pass them out when they have power points or MRI images etc that they need to have on hand. So, five drives are still less than this one relic.
This is the winner. If you find yourself in the unenviable position of having to read memory sticks via your floppy drive, $78 is a goddamn bargain. I had a device at a job backintheday that had a DD floppy drive. It was connected to the device (which spoke CP/M) via a proprietary 30-pin cable. The device was solid state. The drive was not. And while it was probably a Toshiba from 1986 that was available from certain eBay vendors in questionable condition, seeing as it was 2005, my boss grudgingly paid $1800 for a replacement floppy. After all, we billed that piece of shit out at $220 an hour.
I guess this isn't technically worse than downloading an install script and then running it, but it sure makes me want to cower under my desk more.curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
I put one on the public open WiFi at work for the patients to use, and I get compliments that everything runs faster and how did I do that. parts are stupid cheap and you can run it on any small linux box. And it blocks everything including phone ads if you are on wifi at home. It's lovely.