God Is Love
Extreme Electronics@NanoRaptor Why do people insist on using this old format, when there are perfectly good modern alternatives
TeflonTrout 
he/him@Extelec @NanoRaptor you are on a roll, these keep getting more and more cursed
DJ Sexy Fresh@Extelec @NanoRaptor because this one has built in undo / recovery function. Just rewind!
jaseg@Extelec @NanoRaptor Imagine an SD card but it's as thick as a cassette
Klaus FrankBecause of @heiseonline reporting upon people now using ChatGPT to learn stuff I asked ChatGPT what the thing in your picture is.
See what it said:
Supermoosie
Ben AvelingHow else is the AI Clanker supposed to learn if we don’t feed it quality content?
@NanoRaptor @SuperMoosie @heiseonline @agowa338 @Extelec
@NanoRaptor @SuperMoosie @heiseonline @agowa338 @Extelec
Hubert Figuière@Extelec @NanoRaptor wasn't that Sony Magicard that no other vendor used? Twice the price, half the joy.
Sony Make believe.
Kevin Karhan 
SkjeggtrollDo I remember right that Sony also used to make a memory stick to punch-card adapter at one point, or was it just Remington / UNIVAC who had those?
Hugo Mills@Extelec @NanoRaptor The problem is that Sony made a version of that, just with five knobs in a slightly smaller ring instead of six, so that you had to use a proprietary rewinding tool.
🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑@Extelec @NanoRaptor
I tried to save money, buying the cheap SD cards that don't have a manual rewind hole. Unfortunately, with several of those the automatic rewind mechanism has failed, rendering my data inaccessible.
I tried to save money, buying the cheap SD cards that don't have a manual rewind hole. Unfortunately, with several of those the automatic rewind mechanism has failed, rendering my data inaccessible.
@brouhaha @NanoRaptor have you tried wd40 and a whisk?
@Extelec @NanoRaptor
I tried opening one, but no sooner had I slightly cracked the case, than the bits sprayed out everywhere. They're under high pressure, which I suppose has to be expected when they cram trillions of them into such a tiny volume. Luckily I wasn't injured, but I can't recommend trying to repair them. The bits got all over everything, and cleaning up was quite a chore.
No user-serviceable parts inside, as the saying goes.
I tried opening one, but no sooner had I slightly cracked the case, than the bits sprayed out everywhere. They're under high pressure, which I suppose has to be expected when they cram trillions of them into such a tiny volume. Luckily I wasn't injured, but I can't recommend trying to repair them. The bits got all over everything, and cleaning up was quite a chore.
No user-serviceable parts inside, as the saying goes.
@brouhaha @NanoRaptor be careful they aren't called kilo bits for nothing.
Kim Possible 
@Extelec @NanoRaptor the only thing I use it for is my CPap machine. We never could get it to work wirelessly and send digital information to the doctor.
Andrew@Extelec @NanoRaptor Ah, yes, the good old Microdrive…
@arx @NanoRaptor I thought that after id done it :)
Amy@Extelec @NanoRaptor When I saw this pic from a distance I thought it was an SD card with a window for UV light to erase it, like those old eprom chips
@amy @NanoRaptor now, there's a product :)
HappyStarDiaz@Extelec I kind of think of cheap Microcenter SD cards as floppy’s today
groxx
StarkRG@Extelec @NanoRaptor The endless loop SD card was a total game changer.