Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022
check out this wackiness in a removable hard drive sled inside a TASCAM MMR-8: It has a key lock, but the key lock doesn't lock the door, as you'd expect. Instead the lock is just a switch, and it communicates back with some board, which controls a solenoid to unlock the door. Now that's some paranoid over-design!
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022
heh. The manual lists the approved hard drives for use with it.
I guess none of the letters in "SCSI" are "standard"!
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022

also the weird one in that list is the Nikon thing with the asterisk.
It turns out it's a 2.5gb magneto-optical drive that I think was only released in japan?

https://item.rakuten.co.jp/waysas/10015260/?scid=s_kwa_pla_unpaid_211514

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022
Anyway, this is the TASCAM MMR-8.
Sadly it's not as useful (for me) as I was hoping: it has a lot of video support, but it's not really for doing video: it's for syncing audio TO video. This is specifically an audio device, not a video device. Whoops.
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022
fun fact: it turns out that inside it's built on a Socket 7 motherboard. From ASUS!
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2022
Also apparently the OS is stored on a Quantum Fireball IDE drive.
Show threadThe Samus Aran-Contra affairDec 19, 2022

@foone i just had a very visceral memory of the series of Quantum Fireball 4.3GB drives that all popped on the exact same spot on the biggest chip on the pcb - several PCs and even a mac that had done it came thru the shop in those days (over 20 years ago)

i'm sure this one is fine <_<

Show threadAlexander BochmannDec 19, 2022

@fit7 Seems like a good opportunity to recycle this old picture of one of my Quantum disks that Fireballed (though I think it was an earlier model)...

I had no idea this was something that happened more often...

@foone

Show threadThe Samus Aran-Contra affair
@galaxis so the ones i remember (just a handful over a few years) had the pop on the big TI chip over on the right there, and it was a small lil 'pock' -- THAT is an impressive pop wow dang
Dec 19, 2022 at 11:31pmWeb