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LISTEN TO THIS: Old Floppy Disk Drives Turned Into Musical Instruments
Remember that scraping sound floppy disk drives used to make looking for the right spot on the disk? That sound is the stuff of music. Who knew? MrSolidSnake745 has an entire channel featuring music-making drives. He's done 44 floppy-drive videos, viewed almost 4 million times.
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Headbanger plays Star Trek theme on floppy drives
Very heavy metal Vid Storage is weird, wonderful and sometimes very odd. Did you know floppy disk drives can be used for something other than emergency boots of legacy kit or as cool antiques?…
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'Old people' icons: why do we still use them?
The save icon is a floppy disk, now gone for years. Carbon copy for emails, and reel to reel tapes for voice mail icons. Why do we still use these? read more
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Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore
theodp writes "The Floppy Disk Icon, observes Scott Hanselman, means 'save' for a whole generation of people who have never seen one. That, and other old people icons that don't make sense anymore — Radio Buttons, Clipboards, Bookmarks, Address Books and Calendars, Voicemail, Manila Folder, Handset Phone, Magnifying Glass and Binoculars, Envelopes, Wrenches and Gears, Microphones, Photography ...
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The Trending Clouds
The Trending Clouds
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A Computer User’s Guide to Cloud Storage
Cloud storage, now offered by a number of companies in different price ranges, offers a substitute for physical storage, with the additional ability to synchronize across multiple devices.
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Eight floppy drives recreate the theme from Game of Thrones, stake claim to the seven Kingdoms
Should the robots ever form an alliance and turn against us, all we need to do is call on people like Anand Jin to save us. Why? Because it's folk of his ilk that are the pied pipers of the machine world. We've seen disk drives coerced into recreating Daft Punk , and Bo-Rhap extorted from an Atari 800XL. Now, we can watch the aforementioned Anand eke the theme from Game of Thrones out of eight ...
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Data Killer turns hard drives into blank slates with the push of a button (video)
Let's say you're embroiled in an international tale of espionage and intrigue, and you've got hard drives filled with incriminating evidence and top secret information. You could dispose of that potentially dangerous data by manually wiping each disk with multiple passes of a disk erasing app or, you could pop them in the Data Killer and be done with it in seconds. Platform of Japan demonstrated ...
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A User's Guide to Finding Storage Space in the Cloud
One day, you'll gather the grandchildren around you and tell them wondrous tales of life before cloud computing: how you used to put informa
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Use Windows 7 mastered optical disc format for backwards compatibility
Greg Shultz shows you how to find and use the Master optical disc format in Windows 7 to make discs readable by legacy systems.
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