Cartoon Man posted:

The Planters can of cheese balls was much better than the PB crisps.

Cartoon Man posted:

Nieuw Amsterdam posted:

The 90’s is the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11

Sweevo posted:

E's are good.

The Shamen said so.

Parkingtigers posted:

Gritty would never lose, but Mr Blobby can never die.

Mr_Schmoo posted:

Some of you will see a regular diskette, others will just smile.

twistedmentat posted:

Pretty sure Miki is where my thing for Asian women with British accents comes from. But yea Split is pretty drat good, Hypocrite is one if my top brit pop songs.

Though I think they got tossed into riot grrrl stuff rather than brit pop from what I remember.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

But will it be as Xtreme as

Iron Crowned posted:

How about this:

What defines grunge without naming specific bands?

Disco Pope posted:

I said rock album, not Poltergeist noises caught on tape through a reverb pedal.

mostlygray posted:

To the extent that I saw it happen, personally, dozens of times, yes, it's cultural memory. They never fixed the problem. We all just learned to avoid it. We burned through disks like tissue paper. Save everything twice.

Take a drive apart. I'll tell you the problem.

The head (reader) is attached by two fine copper wires. Zip drives were made with an aggressive mechanism that homed the head. For some reason, they set that spring very tight.

When you insert a disk, the first thing it needs to do is find the zero block. If it can't find the zero block, it extends the head and smashes back to home (the click). Once it's done that about 10-15 times, the head comes loose. Now the head is dragging on the disk. This scratches the disk and there's no recovering it.

Now that the head has broken off, it will ruin any other disk that you insert thus propagating the failure to the next.

It's the first, and maybe only, mechanical virus I'd ever seen. It was not made up. It was real. I was there. It was constant. If they fixed it a few years later, good for them. It was too late. We still used Zip disks, but we were very careful and always made multiple copies.

Seriously, I probably went through a hundred Zip disks when I was in college. I owned about 3 drives over time. They were easy to take apart so the failed ones were easy to confirm the diagnosis. It was a piss-poor design of the head.

Fun fact, the guts of those external drives are basically held in by gravity. Also, the eject spring is inconsistent. My buddy had one that would shoot the disk across the room when you ejected it. You had to put your hand in front of it. It would go about 6 feet on eject.