Ghostbusters...on EIGHT Floppy Drives!

[bradley]

This one is my favorite. Amazing what some now might deem trash can do.

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4

Atari 800xl and Floppy Drive 0$ (no joke found it sitting on a garbage pile near Queen and Coxwell)
3.5 Inch Hard Drive 0$ (old defective drive)
Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Card $5 (craigslist)
TI-99/4A and Tape Drive $15 (e-bay)
8 Inch Floppy Drive $20 (a1 electronics)
HP ScanJet 3C $25 (craigslist) Please let me know If you have one for sale and live in the Toronto area.
Eico Oscilloscope $28 (the best deal i ever got on e-bay)
Tektronix TDS210 Oscilloscope (my trusty bench scope)
over 1,000,000 Hits on YouTube - Priceless

 

[shortylickens]

Growing up with floppy disk drives, I never understood why they call them floppy disk when they were in fact hard and square.

Holdover from the days when they were really were floppy. And not as hard as an actual hard disk.

It may also be an allusion to the data itself being less solid, cuz magnetic data can be messed up so easily.

 

[ISAslot]

Omg that was so awesome! I love floppy music!

 

[BUTCH1]

Yeah umm, people have been doing this for decades. Did you just join the internet?

I would consider it an art form, if the OP linked to a unique painting would you fire off "umm, people have been painting for centuries"? Oh, here's his version of "what is love", cool!!.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk_XaJ7gE4Q

 

[CA19100]

Loved it!

Growing up with floppy disk drives, I never understood why they call them floppy disk when they were in fact hard and square.

"Floppy" refers to the disk inside, not the enclosure around it. If you have a 3.5 floppy you can dispose of, rip open the hard plastic shell and see what you find inside.

 

[BUTCH1]

Don't bother. He's a dick in every single threat he posts in. I think it gives him a false sense of superiority that he's missing in real life.

Anyway, I haven't seen floppy music forever I remember back when people used to compose things for the C-64 drive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o

I remember buying the 1541, I think I paid like $150 for it but worth every penny at the time, using the Commodore "Datasette" was horribly slow and unreliable, I would type in a program from "Run" magazine then hope that the cassette was in perfect condition so I got a good save, one little dimple in the tape and poof, there goes 4 hours of typing in machine code!...

 

[andylawcc]

Came expecting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGcO7NQUzro

Was disappointed.

never played that game, but that's an awesome intro

 

[sdifox]

Growing up with floppy disk drives, I never understood why they call them floppy disk when they were in fact hard and square.

8" and 5.25 were floppy. Also, the actual disk inside is floppy, even in the 3.5"

 

[Fritzo]

I remember buying the 1541, I think I paid like $150 for it but worth every penny at the time, using the Commodore "Datasette" was horribly slow and unreliable, I would type in a program from "Run" magazine then hope that the cassette was in perfect condition so I got a good save, one little dimple in the tape and poof, there goes 4 hours of typing in machine code!...

Ha! Did all that coding too...you had to make the MLX Editor, and then for games you have to type in endless pages of numbers and letters. Back then, if you wanted to play a game, you REALLY had to want it.

 

[boochi]

That midi shit could easily fit on a fraction of one disk. Not impressed.

 

[BUTCH1]

Ha! Did all that coding too...you had to make the MLX Editor, and then for games you have to type in endless pages of numbers and letters. Back then, if you wanted to play a game, you REALLY had to want it.

Yup, could you imagine the horror if today's kids were told they had to type in data for 4 hours to get a new app, LOL..