DUDE.
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@screambiogenesis I did not know what was missing in my life until now. What a thing of beauty!
@Datassette_User Same. What a fun bit of ephemera. Sad that if any even sold, they're probably all lost to time.
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@Datassette_User It kind of reminds me of a Cray.
@NF6X @Datassette_User At nearly two feet tall, it's getting close to "this should double as furniture" size. Maybe a cat bed around the perimeter.
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@Datassette_User It kind of reminds me of a Cray.
@NF6X Good point, now I can't unsee the similarity
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@screambiogenesis I had one of these! It was a piece of junk!
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@screambiogenesis $253 in 1980 money?!!!
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Pfft. We had a little plastic box with a lock. Security matters.
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@screambiogenesis $253 in 1980 money?!!!
@popio Yeah. Bare floppy drives themselves in the same catalogue start at ~$280, or ~$500 for externals. On the same page as the fancy carousel is a bin like you might use today (except steel and without a lid) for $10.95. Can't imagine they sold many of the carousel version...
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@screambiogenesis I had one of these! It was a piece of junk!
@pauldrye Do you think it was the same model, or a later/cheaper imitation?
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@screambiogenesis@mastodon.social love how the big one (300 disks) is cheaper than the small one (150 disks). This would be totally different today.
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@pauldrye Do you think it was the same model, or a later/cheaper imitation?
@screambiogenesis Looking at the price on the image, yeah, it was probably an imitation. Teenaged me wasn't paying that!
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@screambiogenesis Actually seems like a pretty good idea. I wonder why it didn't take off more.
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@screambiogenesis Good times
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