That's pretty cool. Makes me want my own floppy drive stereo in the living room.

I still have my old Tandy 1000 EX with 256K ram

1 5 1/4" floppy drive which for longest I ran msdos and wrote basic programs on, then I got into Minix an old unix/linux type OS and started learning C

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

the vast majority of videosift is viewable on an iPad- (YouTube) besides I'm here for the flame wars- which work even on an iPhone.

>> ^spoco2:

I can't believe you still want a product that you can't view your own site on.

Seeing as surely one of the biggest things it would have in its favour is web surfing (although at a god AWFUL 1024x768 resolution), how would you even manage without flash?
As said above, something to play with for a bit and then become amazingly bored with because you can't DO much with it.
And to try to compare removing floppy drives from a system (which had other input means in a CD drive) vs not having any USB or SD card slots is just not the same.
Whoop de doo that they can make crudloads of money selling something that has little practical use, but rather than being any 'paradigm shift' it will rather be seen as the first successful product that nevertheless had no use.
Only later will products appear that people actually will have use for.

I can't believe you still want a product that you can't view your own site on.


Seeing as surely one of the biggest things it would have in its favour is web surfing (although at a god AWFUL 1024x768 resolution), how would you even manage without flash?

As said above, something to play with for a bit and then become amazingly bored with because you can't DO much with it.

And to try to compare removing floppy drives from a system (which had other input means in a CD drive) vs not having any USB or SD card slots is just not the same.

Whoop de doo that they can make crudloads of money selling something that has little practical use, but rather than being any 'paradigm shift' it will rather be seen as the first successful product that nevertheless had no use.

Only later will products appear that people actually will have use for.

This is a *quality bit of animation. Siftbot wouldn't know a good video if it licked his floppy drive.

Brings back memories of sending head banging commands to the C= floppy drives. Sometimes it was to missalign them to get out of doing work and sometimes it was to realign them to play games... Good times. Good times.

it'll turn your floppy drive into a hard drive

>> ^sirex:
magnet next to your pc ! a prize idea ;-/
wtf ?


Your hard drive contains very powerful magnets and is shielded anyway, so unless you still use a floppy drive there will be no problem.

my amstrad was actually young enough to have a floppy drive - though I pulled it apart to wire into my sisters ghetto blaster so I could play my mate's games.

sometimes I'd start the tape loading and then go off to mow the lawns.