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

[indigoparadox@mastodon.social]

@LillyHerself @foone You must be new here.

[fozztexx@mastodon.fozztexx.com]

@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.

[nuxi@mastodon.sdf.org]

@fozztexx @foone

Data 45s were briefly a thing

Spin machines: the curious history of video games on vinyl

During the early 80s home computing boom, flexi discs full of data were briefly all the rage, and Frank Sidebottom, the Thompson Twins and the Stranglers made their way to the ZX Spectrum

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

[foone@digipres.club]

@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@mastodon.sdf.org]

@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.

[foone@digipres.club]

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

[csepp@merveilles.town]

@foone Spin the HDD's case in the opposite direction, then the net RPM can be anything you want.

[foone@digipres.club]

@csepp I've already got a todo for a spinning SATA mount with a slip ring

[lillyherself@mastodon.social]

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

[foone@digipres.club]

@LillyHerself @indigoparadox same, tbh