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I remember when Zip disks were supposed to take over from Floppys...guess that didn't quite work out, hehe

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indeed, the good old Iomega Zip and Jazz drives...!

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Yea I had 2 internals and 1 external, heh

I also ...rather stupidly, bought one of those SparQ drives from Syquest, does anyone remember those?
They got rave reviews, until all the reports started coming in of them breaking down

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The Zip drives were too expensive and over rated and as soon as CDRW drives became so cheap, they were gone in seconds.

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Where the sparQ drives the 120mb super floppies? I nearly bought one of those myself.

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I used an old Intel MDS that had 8"

In our archives I once found a 5MB Hard drive wich was about the size of the average PC base unit.

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SparQ were 1Gb disks. Big problem with them seemed to be head damage from the drive it the disk was pushed in poorly.
I have one. Hooks up to the Parallell port (remember them), have never managed to get it to work on XP.
http://www.syquest.com/
http://www.syquest.com/catalog/spqcart.gif
I think Iomega did a number on this, equal technology to theirs with 10 times the storage so Iomega worked to put the company out of business. I had a fun day somewhere in 99 burining the contents of these discs to CDs.

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Yea, 1gb was the total capacity
Sounded like someone revving a car engine when you put a disk in
Wasn't to bad for a portable device, but once it broke one disk, that same disk would break any drive you put it in!
Freaky thing.

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PC world not selling floppys probably isn't the end of the floppy. That will happen when motherboard manufacturers stop including the floppy drive channel (like they did with the old ISA cards). Most new motherboards still do include FDD support but a for most people, its a waste of valueable real estate

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It did have a really wierd spin up, staged, as you say, like a car revving.

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Wasn't that the sampler the size of a house (and the price of one too) with a light pen so you could 'draw' your sounds? Remember seeing one of those on The Tube and being totally amazed :)

Nowadays, they use them on the tube instead - as barriers to slow the trains down if they run red signals ... ;)

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No, your thinking of an LS120 drive, idea was that it'd read the 120mb media and floppy disks as well.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk

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:) Yes it was indeed, with a separate card for each voice (8 in total on the Series 1). First used by Peter Gabriel on his "3" album then by all and sundry in studios round the world during the 80s. You might remember Nick Rhodes taking his series 3 on tour with Duran Duran, in fact, I think he still does for the pose value. Needless to say, the quality of the samples you could store on an 8" floppy weren't exactly hi-fi (8 bit 24KHz to be precise).

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Customers at work still use floppy disks - to upload/download data from/to their Primary Care Trust, and to save the next day's appoinment list, in the event of disaster. Floppies are still alive and well :)

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Unlike your customers' patients? :p: :D