Happy Birthday

[mejinks]

To the humble compact disk who is 25 years old today.

I remember them coming out too...

[Feek]

Wasn't this birthday last week?

I remember it too. My brother and I went into a shop in Harlow and bought a CD (Alchemy Live) and then went into another shop and asked for something to play it on!

[Fayshun]

I remember Michael Rodd (Or William Woolard or Raymond Baxter) off of Tomorrows World, smearing one with jam and dunking it in tea and it still worked.

But if I have the smallest smidge of dust on it the bloody things jump :(

[mejinks]

Today is the birthday of the first commercially available cd.

Who remembers laserdisks for that matter?

[Mark]

Who remembers laserdisks for that matter?
Remembers? I still have some - and a working player for them.

[Will]

I still have some 5 1/4 floppies lying around somewhere.

I've actually got 3 1/2 sort of, optical disk - it held 128mb! It never took off :( Still I had more media storage than any of my friends at the time! But at that age I was programming BIOSes, modifying motherboards and doing all sorts of geeky stuff. God I was a geek - fortunately technology starting moving very quickly and I couldn't keep up... thank god I moved away from that world! ;D

[Feek]

Oh don't. I've still got some 8" floppies in the loft and up until not very long ago there was a winchester platter hanging from a nail somewhere in here.

[Will]

Cool! :D I still have my zx81 somewhere (With the 128k memory add on!!!!) with some tapes and some of my programs! :D

[Mark]

Ooh yes. Winchester. I have a 20MB hard disk here. Not for long though - will be in the next consignment for the council.

[mejinks]

ROFL. I Pwnz joo all!

http://www.markgerry.plus.com/bd/oldpc/meoldxt.jpg

Fear the awesome power of Dos 3 running the original sage. I can tell you now, that keyboard weighs a ton and currently supports a corner of the house its that solidly built.:)

Still works and it has a 20mb Winchester hard card which you have to park every time you finish using it. Ahhhh, the memories....

I fully expect someone to have a RM nimbus.....

[Mark]

... you'll not be disappointed then, because that's what houses my 20MB winchester (yup - I have to manually park that one, too). Heck, I even visited Research Machines in my yoof. I helped build and admin a whole network of 'em at a school that participated in a pilot scheme when school networks were a completely new idea (while I was still a pupil), and wrote utilities for them (in assembler). /geek ;D

Mine's the newer (light grey) version though, not the original (dark grey) one. Dunno if it still works - last time it was turned on was in the mid '90s.

[Feek]

Do I have to go and get my Acorn Atom (with home designed and built using veroboard and lots of strapping 24k expansion board) out of the loft?

[Mark]

Yes. ;D

Just for the sake of some pictures, mind. :)