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Video: Watch Floppies On Your TV (Patreon)

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2024-07-27 06:50:00
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2026-06
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I don't know how this ended up being an hour and twenty minutes long

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79sFS3T-o80

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Play Floppies On Your TV With These

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Comments

Kehet

I have strong déjà vu about that How to Photograph Your Family demo disk. Have you featured it before? Or maybe it was some other channel …

Pietro Gagliardi

"No, your Olympus is not gonna nail this Barry Lyndon shit" is the line of the video. Also the use of double-sided tape where they had provisions for screws just reeks of 2000s Microsoft extreme penny-pinching; the kind that results in the Xbox 360 scratching disks if moved because they figured the parts of the drive that prevent that were an optimizable cost.

Matthew Cooper

You're not the only one. I know I've seen it somewhere before.

Mat Fordon

I'm wondering if you drill out the bosses on the Microsoft case and screw down the drive, that the front panel will not line up properly. I suspect there might have been a manufacturing defect in the mold that they couldn't chase down properly and just slapped tape in as a stop-gap on yours.

Anonymous Freak

The thing about the webcam support on the "makes a potato look good" is that webcams were generally shite back then. Even *GOOD* webcams in 2001 were only 320x240, unless you went for the actual multi-thousand-dollar "videoconferencing cameras". I remember getting a Macally USB webcam to use on my PowerBook, and its quality wasn't much better than that. (In fact, I bet I still have that Macally hiding in a drawer in the garage…) The webcam revolution didn't really hit until Apple released the Firewire iSight, then when USB 2.0 came out, Logitech and Microsoft started releasing actually decent consumer-grade webcams. (Still SD, mind you…) It was moot, though, because using a webcam pre-broadband was… Pointless. Even with early broadband, that webcam's bandwidth was probably higher than many people's broadband. I know my first broadband was 256kbps synchronous DSL. And most CPUs didn't have the oomph to recompress the incoming video stream acceptably at higher resolutions, so 160x120 was just the norm for early webcam calls. (NetMeeting, CU-SeeMe, ICQ.) Sure, the quality of the sensor and lens could make a difference, but once you'd compressed it to 160x120, 5fps, it didn't really matter any more.

Anonymous Freak

I was thinking vibration. They're using the double sided tape to act as vibration reduction from the floppy drive.

cathoderaydude

None of this is really in dispute, except that the exposure and glare issues make it completely useless. The resolution and frame rate are not that bad for netmeeting, but the optical quality is just beyond awful, even by contemporary standards.

Mat Fordon

What in that thing would need vibration damping? It's a single drive connected to a single PCB.

jcx

Wow. I recognised that camera was similar to one of mine when it beeped on taking the photo and you proved it later in the video. The @xia 100, which has a terribly small internal memory, but it supported Smart Media cards, and I had a 32mb one - as terrible as it's photos were, when I was a kid I couldn't afford to keep buying and developing film (film, batteries, developing/prints - One of my cameras even used flashcubes)... so it was kinda liberating to be able to take a few hundred photos for the price of some batteries... Two Alkalines would last about a weekend, but if I saved some "pocket money" I'd spring for some of those Lithium (Non-rechargeable) AAs which lasted a whole season. Just checked some old files, a whopping 640x512 pixels JPEG quality 80, with subsampling (2x2) on. EXIF says exposure time 1/9.2 seconds.

Funkmon

FIRST OF ALL APS WAS FANTASTIC. 40 shots with data about the exposure, you could switch rolls in the middle and go back to it, it was awesome. Goddamn. If you haven't shot 100 ISO all day outside and then gone to a party and just popped that shit out and put in the 1600 you haven't lived. APS is the best film format. It's not even close. God I loved it.

Funkmon

AND ANOTHER THING APS cameras were tiny. You remember the Canon Elph? That was APS. They had tiny little SLRs as well. It's why I'm still using its spiritual successor in micro four thirds. Size baby, size. I also shoot Leica for extremely small size with full frame lenses. Anyway I agree with your photograph criticism.

John Higgins

I almost never interact with people I donate to on Patreon (I am just happy to support creators I like) but I just want to say Udon (your cat - I hope I spelled her name correctly) is just beautiful. I am honestly smitten. I also want to take this moment to say I love your videos and you're my absolute favorite YouTuber bar none. Thank you for all of the work you do!

OPAL

i am fed, my crops are watered, my skin has been moisturized with this upload

Maxie

If you were at the cool store yesturday and you saw a weird transgirl in a red hat ummm hiii if that was you I was way too afraid to say hi and interupt you but big fan and ur the whole reason i know about that wonderful place and the treasures inside. Yeah sorry if this is weird but i wanted to say hi

cathoderaydude

Not weird at all, feel free to say hi next time! I get recognized there almost every weekend haha