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Would you still love me if I was a worm?
A Maxell Optical Disc Cartridge OC321-2 7 gigabyte WORM disc. It's shown in comparison to a 3.5" disk, where it's about 4 times as wide and tall.
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dan 💾
dan 💾
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WORM! Now there's a thing I haven't thought about in a long, long time. Fun 😁
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yopp
yopp
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why it has write protection toggle?! How does it even work?
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Foone🏳️‍⚧️
Foone🏳️‍⚧️
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@alex WORM discs are sector-based, so you can write a few sectors and then later write more. The switch just tells the laser not to run at write-intensity
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Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤
Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤
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excuse me? I was pretty fond of my big iomega 44MB disks and now you tell me this exists?
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Wayne Werner
Wayne Werner
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🎶they call me Doctor Worm/I'm not a real doctor but I am a real wooooooooorm!🎶
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vga256
vga256
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oh slick. do you have a working drive for it?
i've got a sony MO 5 1/4" scsi drive, but i haven't tried using it in decades.
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Foone🏳️‍⚧️
Foone🏳️‍⚧️
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@vga256 nah. Drives for these big WORM drives are basically impossible to find. They were only used by big companies in the datacenter and they tossed them out long ago
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botvolution
botvolution
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my cognitive processing told me you were showing this on a train and I thought why would you take a giant disc on a train to take a photograph of it?
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tyx
tyx
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Where did you get such a small 3.5" floppy and a toddler to hold that perfectly normal MOD?
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