Nina KalininaThere was a brief period of time when upgrade modules for computers looked like upgrade modules for computers.
Space Hobo@nina_kali_nina We all just wanted Sony cyberdeck aesthetics without the Sony made-up-a-proprietary-lock-in-and-nobody-cared formats and protocols.
Kevin Karhan 
@spacehobo @nina_kali_nina Gilfoyle Voice "Kinda like that one?"
points at #VAIO #P11Z
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Vaio_P11Z
@kkarhan @nina_kali_nina https://www.msx.org/wiki/Sony_HB-10 ← This was more what I was going for, or maybe the HB-F1...
@kkarhan @nina_kali_nina Heck, even the standard 3½" diskette or the minidisc are design classics compared to what we all ended up with.
@spacehobo @[email protected] minidisc are so pretty 🥲 we still use them at home
vxo@nina_kali_nina @spacehobo MD was just such a charmingly futuristic UX in general. Tiny disc, tiny player/recorders, support for metadata, it was glorious
Michael Dwyer@vxo @nina_kali_nina @spacehobo The music industry stole this future from us. I recall quietly begging the market for something to replace the floppy disk. I remember searching for MD data drives. I briefly tested floptical. But it really wasn't until flash thumb drives that anything actually arrived. (I'm conveniently forgetting CD+R and DVD?R? because that experience sucked.)
Oh. I forgot about Zip disks. Those were almost there.
@mdwyer @vxo @nina_kali_nina @spacehobo and now you know why I want a Removeable yet bootable SSD format…
Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] I still think the 3,5" FDD has the supreme handling of any removeable media, which is why I advocate to [copy it's design for hot-swappable SSDs](https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy) - Simply because it's just a superior design! Tho granted if it were to help I'd accept increasing *THICC-ness* from 3,3mm to 5mm since that could increase mechanical stiffness and prevent idiots.from shoving it into a real 3,5" FDD drive… - Certainly it's [better](https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy/blob/main/documentation/neofloppy.specification.md) than USB flashdrives and (often precariously dangling) external SSDs.
@kkarhan
Would some kind of swappable cartridge NVME fit the bill?
While it could be shaped like a floppy, a MD, or a Nintendo cartridge, I'm proposing they be modeled after friend shaped tape media like DVCAM. MiniDV is cute too but look at the mini THICCUM and the CHONKERONI and CHEESE
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DV_tape_sizes_2.jpg
@kkarhan
wait that should be THICCARONI and CHEESE, and CHONKSTER. The sound that comes out of the deck when it high speed rewinds is fearsome, almost seismic, like the sound of someone power drilling into the opposite side of a wall. I love it. They get away with it because the decks that do that have very smooth and gentle speed regulation on direct drive reel motors that handle the thin tape with the care needed to avoid Magnetic Fettuccine of Heartbreak
@mdwyer @nina_kali_nina @spacehobo
wait that should be THICCARONI and CHEESE, and CHONKSTER. The sound that comes out of the deck when it high speed rewinds is fearsome, almost seismic, like the sound of someone power drilling into the opposite side of a wall. I love it. They get away with it because the decks that do that have very smooth and gentle speed regulation on direct drive reel motors that handle the thin tape with the care needed to avoid Magnetic Fettuccine of Heartbreak
@mdwyer @nina_kali_nina @spacehobo