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5546254 No.5546254 [Reply] [Original]

What if someone made a console with Zip disks? Would it be any worse than, say, N64 cartridges?

>> No.5546260

>>5546254
What if we burned our nes carts to vinyl and only used vintage tube amps to feed the roms to an NES?

>> No.5546308
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>>5546254
they did that tho

>> No.5546318

Didn't some models have a viral failure mode, because a bean counter removed a foam washer that was there specifically to prevent it?

>> No.5546351

>>5546318
Click of death, pretty annoying problem indeed. Mostly because of the amount of press it got, front page news on all the tech sites for what seemed like weeks or months.

Ironically I have multiple Zip drives that never had any problems and still even work today, but my larger removable drives from Iomega and SyQuest using newer storage media have all been dead for decades.

>> No.5548017

>>5546254
No. Silly zoomers would be asking silly "what if" questions no matter what happened.

>> No.5548023

>>5546260
What if I fucked your mom in front of you when you were a kid but you don't remember

>> No.5548034

>>5546254
Didn't zip disks have a read/write time of a floppy disk? I feel like they were hot garbage until cheap CDs came along.

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>magnetic storage in lieu of flash storage

>> No.5548050

>>5548034
Much faster than floppy, especially the USB and ATAPI drives.

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>>5546254
There kinda was. and for the N64 too.

>>5548050
Or SCSI.

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>> No.5548224

>>5548205
Right. My friend had one of the combo drives that he'd let me borrow to read my own disks. The worst way to use that thing was parallel port on an old PC without ECP, speed would shoot through the floor.

>> No.5548271

>>5548023
Dad?

>> No.5548290

>>5548034
No. How you feel about things from before you were born is irrelevant.

>> No.5548293 [DELETED] 

>>5548034

Not the drive itself but the connection. If you connected it serial you also just got serial speed.
The internal ones were much faster.

>> No.5548304

>>5548034

Not the drive itself but the connection. If you connected it external/ parallel you also just got parallel speed.
The internal ones were much faster.

>> No.5548458

>>5546254
I remember thinking 100mb was ALOT and how cool it was. But my school never had Zip drives so I still has to use floppies for assignements

>> No.5548864

>>5546254
Yes, the read/write speeds are atrociously slow compared to carts and the storage capacity is low compared to CDs. Also they're loud and prone to errors.
They looked pretty cool, though.

>> No.5550719

>>5546254
the reliability of zip/jaz disks was worse than floppy disks; it's no wonder nintendo never mass-produced their failed 64dd addon

>> No.5550767

Zip got rolled by LS120 but even that didn't go anywhere.

>> No.5550924

>>5550767
LS120 never grew to be more popular than Zip disks.

>>5550719
I had a Jaz 1GB in addition to many Zip drives. While it was also unreliable as you say, it wasn't like high capacity floppies like Zip or 64DD disks because it used actual hard drive platters (an absolutely shitty idea for portable disks, since hard drives normally keep those platters in nearly-airtight, dust-controlled conditions).

>> No.5552159

>>5548205
can you play as Knuckles?