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While I’ve given up hope of ever owning another pair of Reebok pumps, or seeing the USSR neatly bound together by one thick line on a map again, I’m glad that Neatorama has at least given me a way to relive my most glorious(-ly awkward) years. These retro-CDRs, shaped to look like floppy disks, hold up to 200 MB of data (a little more than its 1.22 MB predecessor), and definitely make me smile. Of course, while these geeky throwbacks are bound to satiate me for a bit, please know that I won’t be happy until I find a flash drive that looks like a VHS tape. Link via Neatorama.
BY THE WAY: If you haven’t checked out the Show off your Smarts Contest we’re running with Neatorama, be sure to do that here. It’ll be running all week long, and we’re giving away free stuff daily.
great something else for my mom to try to jam into the floppy disk drive of her computer only to get stuck… yeah broken floppies, paper clips and even post it notes have been in there.
posted by KC on 12-6-2007 at 6:24 pm
The flash drive in the shape of a VHS cassette would be cool. I remember years ago, some fellows hacked VCRs to store data on them. If I remember correctly you could store lots of data relatively inexpensively.
posted by Stew on 12-9-2007 at 3:42 pm