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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 08:25:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   No one's made an open source hard drive firmware yet, right?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 08:54:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I saw a thing about how hard drives have run as slow as 1200 RPM, but I was disappointed to learn that was only old mainframe drives and not something IDE/SATA that I can plug into my modern system

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 08:54:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I also thought those are rookie numbers. I want to build a hard drive that spins at 6 RPM

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 10:53:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • FozzTexx
     • nuxi

     @nuxi @fozztexx I've got a couple but I've never tried reading them in. I think I'd need to set up my s100 machine first

   • nuxi (nuxi@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 10:53:18 JST nuxi

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     • FozzTexx

     @fozztexx @foone

     Data 45s were briefly a thing

     https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/jul/07/video-games-on-vinyl-flexi-discs-zx-spectrum

   • FozzTexx (fozztexx@mastodon.fozztexx.com)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 10:53:19 JST FozzTexx

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     @foone now I’m looking at this and thinking what if it was a 78 RPM multi platter storage device. Switching the head from one platter to the next has a pretty long seek time. 🤔

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 12:52:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • FozzTexx
     • nuxi

     @nuxi @fozztexx there's laser vinyl players that kinda do this, but they always have the problem that any dust or grim on the disc gets picked up

   • nuxi (nuxi@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 12:52:05 JST nuxi

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     • FozzTexx

     @foone @fozztexx seems overly straightforward. There's gotta be a way to photograph the grooves and train a neural net to read it OCR-style or something.

   • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia (lillyherself@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 06:02:17 JST LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

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     • Gorgeous na Shock!

     @indigoparadox @foone I am a long term fan of Foone's, even though I don't always understand everything they are up to!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 06:02:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
     • Gorgeous na Shock!

     @LillyHerself @indigoparadox same, tbh

   • Gorgeous na Shock! (indigoparadox@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 06:02:18 JST Gorgeous na Shock!

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     • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

     @LillyHerself @foone You must be new here. 😌

   • LillyLyle/Count Melancholia (lillyherself@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 06:02:19 JST LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

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     @foone What would the advantage be?