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What devices or equipment you own or had that doesn't have much use in the modern world anymore? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I was a kid my family owned a device whose sole purpose was to rewind vhs tapes.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Jaz drive (and the isa scsi card) and several tapes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for reminding me that I can’t trust my own memory and that they were NOT called Jazz drives

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Woah, so you're the other person who bought a Jaz drive! I knew we'd meet eventually.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My school had them everywhere back then. At one point, I owned 2 jaz drives, several Zip drives, and countless disks for each. I later worked the phones during Iomega's click of death scandal. Yeah, I'm old.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Zip drives were all over campus for me in the early 2000's too. I've got a Zip & a Zip 250 somewhere...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I had Zip and Jaz drives as well. A couple years ago a guy at work was doing some weird project where he neede a bunch of zip disks, so I gave him my box of them and he transferred my data to a couple DVDs. Found a lot of photos, old forgotten code of mine, and D&D scenarios I had written and never played. Homebrew spells, magic items, etc... which I'm now using in my campaign. Great treasure trove!