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Message 1195479 - Posted: 15 Feb 2012, 8:27:50 UTC

Some of you like to see how far you can push old hardware...

This isn't quite number crunching, but is still impressive.

Pirates of the Caribbean theme played on 8 floppy drives
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Message 1195483 - Posted: 15 Feb 2012, 8:37:24 UTC

I'll see your 8 froppies and raise you 5 playing derezzed from TRON.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plg_yYsCQM

Are they actually crunching some data or just the heads. I'm not sure all I know is that I like it.
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Message 1195767 - Posted: 15 Feb 2012, 21:11:09 UTC

I saw a video that used floppy drives to play a rendition of:

"Phantom of the Opera"

I just don't recall where that was.
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Message 1195774 - Posted: 15 Feb 2012, 21:32:43 UTC - in response to Message 1195768.  

My second favorite (right after the phantom of the floppera) is this Masterpiece.
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Message 1196120 - Posted: 16 Feb 2012, 22:09:47 UTC
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I feel old: when I read the phrase "old hardware," I just assumed these would be 5 1/4" drives. Yeah yeah, I know there are older :P

There are no floppy drives in this video, but there is a scanner-bass, and a dot-matrix drum-kit. Be patient though, as it takes the ZX Spectrum a minute to load...

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Message 1196331 - Posted: 17 Feb 2012, 13:16:09 UTC

All very good stuff. Just one "minor" point: that "Phantom of the Opera" is actually the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by J.S. Bach.

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Message 1199007 - Posted: 23 Feb 2012, 21:45:48 UTC

It's not exactly floppies, but still a classic. It probably laid the groundwork for the floppy videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4
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Message 1199060 - Posted: 23 Feb 2012, 23:39:05 UTC - in response to Message 1199010.  


I have a box of brand new 8" floppies that I used to wow my IT students with. None had ever heard of them, let alone seen any .....


I wish I still had some of the old "magazine drives" that my former company usaed to do system backup on their IBM System34. Each "magazine" held IIRC 10 8" floppies, and the system loaded 2 magazines at once. Took like 20 magazines to do daily backup.
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