OT: Yet more heartbreak for VW and Audi owners

....,,,,..,,.. · 11-10-2015, 02:25 PM

Well, not only have VW and Audi been caught out as cheating and lying cnuts, drooping their owners in ownership hell.

Now Sony have finally put the nail in the coffin for Betamax tapes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34776424

So all those VW and Audi owners will need to move to modern technology, scary thought.

teaston · 11-10-2015, 02:30 PM

They still make Betamax tapes!! What the fcuk!

Watsey · 11-10-2015, 04:57 PM

I saw this on the BBC website today - could not believe that Betamax hadn't died decades ago. FFS, who still needs Betamax ?

jusdorange · 11-10-2015, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by teaston

They still make Betamax tapes!! What the fcuk!

floppy disks still exist

http://www.cclonline.com/product/960...FcSfGwodYEAABw

SkyJawa · 11-10-2015, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jusdorange

floppy disks still exist

http://www.cclonline.com/product/960...FcSfGwodYEAABw

You call that a floppy disk? THIS is a floppy disk

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DYSAN-5-1-...25.m3641.l6368

teaston · 11-10-2015, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by SkyJawa

You call that a floppy disk? THIS is a floppy disk

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DYSAN-5-1-...25.m3641.l6368

5,25", pah they're nothing compared to 8" floppy disks!

jusdorange · 11-10-2015, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by teaston

5,25", pah they're nothing compared to 8" floppy disks!

they made them in 8 inch ?

ok that's news to me

lobeydosser · 11-10-2015, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by teaston

5,25", pah they're nothing compared to 8" floppy disks!

We used the large ones, I thought they may even have been 12" disks, in a Cromemco mini-computer in our data capture area in the early 1980s.

Where did I read about a youngster seeing a 3.25" floppy and exclaiming -

"Wow! You 3D printed the save icon!"?

Quantox · 11-10-2015, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by SkyJawa

You call that a floppy disk? THIS is a floppy disk

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DYSAN-5-1-...25.m3641.l6368

That was when floppy disks really were (physically) floppy, and only 512kb (?) if DS?, and not encased in a hard shell and upped to 1.44mb.

Oh, the hours spent uploading 13 x 1.44 disks for a flight sim that didn't work because my processor power / vid card were too weak...........Arrrggghhhh!

I remember it too well.

Q

Quantox · 11-10-2015, 06:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jusdorange

they made them in 8 inch ?

ok that's news to me

Almost me too but as I've been reminded, they ring a bell! Hellfire, what's coming next, 24" disks?

Q

Paular · 11-11-2015, 12:09 AM

They'll be telling us Amstrad PCWs are obsolete next !

JustChris · 11-11-2015, 01:14 AM

Actually impressive backwards support from Sony really, many years after EOL for Betamax.

335dJa · 11-11-2015, 01:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jusdorange

they made them in 8 inch ?

ok that's news to me

Just be wary of googling "8 inch floppy"...

Lorcan · 11-11-2015, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by lobeydosser

We used the large ones, I thought they may even have been 12" disks, in a Cromemco mini-computer in our data capture area in the early 1980s.

I worked for a government department in the early eighties that used punched paper tape to transmit data, like this:

They're probably still using it...

Ross_T_Boss · 11-11-2015, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Lorcan

I worked for a government department in the early eighties that used punched paper tape to transmit data, like this:

They're probably still using it...

Yes, only after spending hundreds of millions on failed IT projects to replace it!

gatsojon · 11-11-2015, 04:18 PM

I see your punched tape and raise you punched cards. As used in my first Fortran 77 programming.

lobeydosser · 11-11-2015, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by gatsojon

I see your punched tape and raise you punched cards. As used in my first Fortran 77 programming.

Yeh Fortran!
Been there, done that. (and dropped a box of sorted cards!)

Andy30D · 11-12-2015, 01:02 AM

You lot are old man...

JustChris · 11-12-2015, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Andy30D

You lot are old man...

Indeed, Lorcan that's impressive you used it!

Still they were onto something, try hacking that data!!

TomJ79 · 11-12-2015, 04:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jusdorange

they made them in 8 inch ?

ok that's news to me

I have been trying to convince the missus that there is no real difference between a 5.25" and an 8".

....,,,,..,,.. · 11-12-2015, 07:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gatsojon

I see your punched tape and raise you punched cards. As used in my first Fortran 77 programming.

Bliss a 'high level' programming language.

We had to learn Assembly and Machine code.

The main computers were upgraded from 224k to 256k (16bit)

That was the 'modern' Tornado main computer of course.

Unless it's 1's and 0's it ain't programming

lobeydosser · 11-12-2015, 06:11 PM

For the Fortran and punch tape fans, here's a video that will bring tears to your eyes -

https://youtu.be/hxVbRz6udmI

Whether they're tears of nostalgia or of frustration I'll leave up to you.

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