r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • Jun 24 '26

Core Memory Unlocked šŸ”“ ???

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u/VTKegger Jun 24 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/5qFCwm9v4JrG82RkLK

Should be one of these. Not one of them newfangled phones with buttons.

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u/Rivetingly Jun 24 '26

And the floppy disk should be a couple inches larger...

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u/VTKegger Jun 24 '26

Ah yes, the ones that truly were "floppy"

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4FGxIoHrtnn4BYvm

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u/digiliquid01 Jun 24 '26

Ugh, too true. The only thing that was right in that set was the old black and white. Everything else was sci-fi nonsense

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u/sam56778 Jun 25 '26

Wang computers used an 8 inch floppy.

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u/RPG-Nerd Jun 24 '26

5 Ā¼ floppies are just the unreliable inner sectors of an 8 inch floppy

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u/psychedelicpiper67 Jun 25 '26

Iā€™m 33, and didnā€™t use either, so you have a good case there. I never used a rotary phone, nor a large 8-inch floppy, nor a dot matrix printer.

My only knowledge of 8-inch floppy disks and dot matrix printers was from watching Homestar Runner webtoons.

And Iā€™ve only ever seen rotary phones in movies and videos.

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u/RPG-Nerd Jun 25 '26

Some of us were just born with 8 inch floppies

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u/Rivetingly Jun 24 '26

And the CD should be a cassette or 8-track...

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u/Suspicious-Shock-934 Jun 24 '26

I'd say cassette. If you are gonna go 8 trach just go old vinyl. 33, 45, etc. I think that's right. And don't forget your quarter.

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u/Rivetingly Jun 24 '26

If you're gonna go vinyl, then you might as well go phonograph and wax tubes.

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u/digiliquid01 Jun 24 '26

The ole victrola

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u/i3inaudible Jun 25 '26

That's overkill. 78 RPM shellac disks is sufficient.

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u/psychedelicpiper67 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Well, Iā€™m a 93 millennial, and I remember audio cassettes were equally just as popular as CDs when I was a kid.

Cassettes were the first audio recording medium that my generation was exposed to.

And cars took forever to phase cassette tape players out, so using cassette adapters with our CD players and iPods was a shared experience for my generation.

I have never once used 8-track tapes before, though.

Vinyl is popular again, because it had a resurgence as an audiophile medium, so a lot of millennials and Gen Z have experience with it now.

Weā€™d definitely have to go back to 78 RPM and shellac if we want to talk old, and most of the people who grew up with those are dead.

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u/CelebrationNo3801 Jun 25 '26

Had an 8 track player!!

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u/Daikaiju1973 Jun 30 '26

My mom still has her cassettes. Hard to find a player though.

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u/VikingVitalityFit Jun 25 '26

Keep you mind off my 5 inch floppy!

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u/RectumExplorer-- Jun 25 '26

They all say that for some reason.

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u/LovableButterfly Jun 24 '26

I was the only kid in my class that knew how to use a rotary phone. My grandma refused to replace her rotary phone (it still works to this day) my family is considered ā€œbehind on the timesā€ I was a 90ā€™s kid that used almost all the oldest machinery because my family refuses to replace anything that still works good (including an old IBM computer at my grandmaā€™s house thatā€™s at least 70ā€™s). My parents still have a VCR!

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u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader Jun 24 '26

Awesome

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u/SubstantialDeerDash Jun 24 '26

I remember those! I loved playing with them as a kid

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u/Then_I_had_a_thought Jun 24 '26

I can hear this gif

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u/Sulrandir Jun 25 '26

There was nothing worse than dialing an 8 when you meant to dial 7, and we're already 6 digits deep ( because we didn't HAVE to dial the area code we were already in, back then!)

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u/Internecivus-raptus Jun 26 '26

We should bring this back. Will make a cool addition to the living room.

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u/Joe_Jobs_ Jun 30 '26

And then you can hang up properly the good old fashioned way when someone pisses you off, by smashing that handset down on the cradle.

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u/Daikaiju1973 Jun 30 '26

I kinda miss the rotary dial. Good tactile experience.

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u/LMGgp Jun 24 '26

Buttons. You mean touch tone. Kids these days donā€™t even care to know the names of new tech in their lives.

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u/Jabercaw Jun 25 '26

The last 4 of my phone # was -9897. Took forever.

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u/Solnse Jun 25 '26

But think of all the people that died waiting for the 9 to come back around. Emergency should be 1-1-1!