I took a lot of photos with a lot of people during the late 90’s. I wonder if those backup CDs in storage are still good.

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    21 hours ago

    Millennial lies!

    Porn in the 90’s, that was not in print, was stored on tape. By the mid 90:s the most tech savvy of us saved porn on a “zip disk” which were also primarily tape drives.

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      15 hours ago

      I remember trying to convince my dad to buy me a zip drive for this (well I didn’t tell him it was for this) lol.

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      20 hours ago

      Zip disks were closer to floppies. Magnetic disks and tape are fundamentally different (random access, especially), although the physics behind the R/W operation is the same.

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      were also primarily tape drives.

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      no. zip disks were a shitty removable format that ran off parallel (slowly) or scsi (paying more), or eventually atapi/ide and usb iirc.

      iomega also made tape drives, but zip disks weren’t it.