Slow loading porn?
I kept my stash of jpegs and (silent, low-res) clips on a zip drive. Remember them? Nice, satisfying clunk when the disk was inserted.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 14:36, 12 replies)

I still have a couple of Iomega Zip disks in my pants drawer.
They held a HUNDRED MEGABYTES, man. That was very nearly everything.
(mmm savoury snacks, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 14:39, closed)

I think mine held 250MB.
Never kept them in my pants, though.
Still have the drive and disks (hopefully without the porn), they might be useful, someday, if I ever want to backup part of a CD.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 14:43, closed)

250?
You young whippersnapper.
(mmm savoury snacks, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 14:46, closed)

In fact
Mine was even a parallel port connection. None of your modern USB.

Jumpers for goalposts. Isn't it? Wasn't it? Marvellous.
(mmm savoury snacks, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 14:48, closed)

Yes...same here...
100mb of parallel speed goodness!
(dchurch bah, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 16:47, closed)

Yeah, 250!
Of course, once the bundled disk ran out, it was back to 100s, as no one saw fit to stock the 250s, what with zip drives being massively unpopular.

EDIT: I built my drive out of elastic bands, blu-tak and paper clips, so nyer.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 14:53, closed)

SyQuest 44Mb
and I'm talking about a time when 44Mb was a lot of data.
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 15:44, closed)

that's what she said

( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 16:17, closed)

I'd have thought a Jaz drive would have been more appropriate.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 20:55, closed)

And then they ended up just going
*click*

*click*

*click*

*click*

And never working again.
( Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 21:19, closed)

Stored my backups on a Superdisk
120MB of space, who needs floppy discs after that?

Turns out you do when Supredisks become rarer than hen's teeth.
(Chuckman, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 11:28, closed)

30MB IDE drive...
...doublespaced hanging out of the side of my PC case. Those were the days!
( Evil Bastardo, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 15:40, closed)