Blank VHS covers are always artistically fantastic.
Absolutely
A spool of plastic filament.
Ahh, G28 sweet G28
I remember getting a stack of blank CDs for christmas. Loved it. Burned so many CDs, made my own mix tracks, gave them out to people I liked and they returned in kind. Shit was cash.
It’s so difficult to share music with people now
Anyone is free to gift me HDDs or SSDs.
In fact, if anyone wants to contribute to my holidays present with random computer parts, be my guest.
Don’t even have to be new parts. Just whatever you have laying around from the last few years.
I’ve built one working computer from the remains of three.
I’ll take my chances.
How many leftover working parts were there, or was it a perfect fit with no surplus?
It was pretty much a junkyard special.
One computer donated the tower and optical drives, another provided RAM, CPU and one HDD and the final one provided motherboard and another HDD.
PSU I had already laying around from yet another junker.
Same, my media server has been ship of thesused out of my past few desktops.
If it works, it works!
No, and I was around when VHS was popular.
It’s been so long since I have seen one of these that I forgot that Scotch was more than just an adhesive company.
They are a tape company
They’re a 3M brand. They make basically everything.
I’m only just now realizing they’re the same company.
so Scotch, the tape company, also sold tapes? 🤨
It seems weird, but makes sense. They already had the equipment to make long, thin ribbons of plastic, after all.
You need anything taped? Scotch had your back.
But I don’t need my back taped.
Scotch is more of a brand name. 3M is the parent company, and they make nearly everything
Why get new tapes when one battered and war-torn tape is all you need? Especially the part where you guess (incorrectly) what’s safe to copy over, angering your family. Make sure you set the record speed properly!
Copying over our wedding was a mistake anybody could’ve made
A 20 TB hard drive
The equivalent would probably either be something like external hard drives or thumb drives. That, or going online and finding blank VCR tapes, CDs, or DVDs for sale. I assume it’s harder for VCR tapes, but I know you can still find CDs and DVDs at some stores.
I got lucky because towards the beginning of fall quarter at the college I attend, they were getting rid of an unopened stack of blank DVDs for free. Such a great gift, despite me getting them for free.
I’d still love to get an LTO drive and some tapes for christmas.
More storage for the media server NAS, which I then share with family and friends.
I’m buying you the cheapest used hard drives from ebay coupled with the SSDs from wish.com.
… I’ll make sure to have enough redundancies 😬
You got a 5 pack of VHS tapes? When I was a kid, I once got one VHS tape as a Christmas gift. And it was awesome. Because it had a plastic cover and everything.
Still sits on my childhood home shelf, with that Christmas episode of Garfield and Friends at the beginning. Can’t remember what else I recorded on it.
My buddy gave me a VHS camcorder and VCR for Christmas in like 2015. My favorite thing to do with them was to buy VHS movies from the thrift store and record home movies over them, but each time I would start to record I would randomly fast forward a minute or two. It was kinda cool and trippy to watch goofy shit we’d do and then it phases into a random scene from Edward Scissorhands before going back into the next adventure of ours.
Break it out during the holidays and find out!
As long as they didn’t also have one of those camcorders that connected to a full-size VCR on a shoulder strap, all powered by mains power. Who knows what’s on that tape.
You’ll never forget the Christmas you saw your own conception. Only fitting.
I recorded hours and hours of Headbangers Ball on mine
And I think I might have used the exact tapes in the picture
The equivalent now is a package of socks that don’t suck.
I got a 10-pack of 3.5" floppies at one point.
Man that’s like 14.4 megs of storage!
More like 4.32 MB of storage and a spare.
You don’t really have your data backed up unless you make 2 more floppies!
RAID-10 with floppies and a flotilla of whirring drives.
I was listening to a podcast and this older guy who used to tape trade, was saying that in the early 80s, VHS was new and a good player would cost like $2k in today’s money. A blank VHS tape used to go for like $50+each. New Hollywood movie releases on VHS in those days were around $80