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sarramkrop 01.16.2009 03:46 PM

Bands putting records out on floppy disc
 
What do you think of this?

al shabbray 01.16.2009 03:49 PM

I got one
3.5" didnt have the opportunity to listen to it yet.
I just like the idea of abandon media and I pretty much liked the print on it.
I will check which artist

sarramkrop 01.16.2009 03:51 PM

Same here. I like the format 'cause it looks like 70's furniture design. It's only recently I came across some bands doing that.

atsonicpark 01.16.2009 03:57 PM

I remember a band called the Lotus doing this about 6 years ago. I saw a local "IDM dude" who gave me a copy of his album on floppy too, about 5 years ago. Pretty neat.

al shabbray 01.16.2009 03:58 PM

here is it:
 

noisereductions 01.16.2009 03:58 PM

Back when I was a music maker, there was a label called Computer Disk Records, that only released singles on 3.5" disks, and they put out one of mine.

sarramkrop 01.16.2009 04:00 PM

Wow! Exhausts put records out on floppy disc now? I have one of their CDs, if it's the same band we're talking about. And I like them a lot too.

noisereductions 01.16.2009 04:00 PM

http://www.punkhost.com/ the label's gone I guess.

sarramkrop 01.16.2009 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noisereductions
http://www.punkhost.com/ the label's gone I guess.

cheers

al shabbray 01.16.2009 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sarramkrop
Wow! Exhausts put records out on floppy disc now? I have one of their CDs, if it's the same band we're talking about. And I like them a lot too.


damn. and I havent found an old enough PC/Mac yet to check it

btw the included chart says that it requires shickwave flash player. maybe its some interactive do it yourself program made by them, rather then an album

sarramkrop 01.16.2009 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by al shabbray
damn. and I havent found an old enough PC/Mac yet to check it

My pc is considered ancient by today's standards and still survives (fingers crossed). Old-fashioned desktop bought from Mr Riley in Islington in 2003. I record all my music on it, so if I it gets destroyed , I am wiped off too.

al shabbray 01.16.2009 04:08 PM

you are relying on an old PC?
its time for some backup!

atsonicpark 01.16.2009 04:08 PM

My computer is 8 1/2 years old. Never had a problem with it. It's got ME on it and 18.6gb of space.

sarramkrop 01.16.2009 04:09 PM

I don't download animal porn on it. I just like being the peeping tom.

al shabbray 01.16.2009 04:11 PM

yes, ok I got a still running C64 with no HD space at all, hahaha. but thats another story. I dont trust PCs anymore

@sarram:
is your disk a 3.5" too or an 5.25" C64 style disk?
I wonder because all Ive seen so far are 3.5" disks

noisereductions 01.16.2009 04:15 PM

I heart C64.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 01.16.2009 04:16 PM

You need to get one of those old school tape backup machines man

SYRFox 01.16.2009 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atsonicpark
My computer is 8 1/2 years old. Never had a problem with it. It's got ME on it and 18.6gb of space.

haha, that's almost the same configuration for me. My computer is 8 years old I believe, I never upgraded it in any way (I don't even own an external hard drive). The hard drive is 18.5gb of space and it never got full - though it's sometimes close. At the moment I have something like 600Mb free
And it has a floppy disc reader

sarramkrop 01.16.2009 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by al shabbray
yes, ok I got a still running C64 with no HD space at all, hahaha. but thats another story. I dont trust PCs anymore

@sarram:
is your disk a 3.5" too or an 5.25" C64 style disk?
I wonder because all Ive seen so far are 3.5" disks

what's that? the size of my floppy drive? i don't know. standard?

al shabbray 01.16.2009 04:20 PM

yes there are two standards. the 3.5" are the one like mine. they were first in old amigas I think and early PCs and were the standard till the end. before that there were this huge 5.25" floppy disks which are known in germany just as floppies (the 3.5" are just known as diskettes)
the bigger ones are thinner and way more bendable
edit:

5.25"
 


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