Rocking to Finest Irish Speed Folk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm8grOHUZYw
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh boy, that band still exists! 😅 I think some of the first MP3s I ever had in the 1990ies were from them … Short samples from their website … I wonder if I still have them.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This is one of the files:
https://movq.de/v/5918f06a81/JACOBI%7E1.MP3
You can tell the age by the filename. 🤣 This file was stored on an LS120 disk for a while around 1997, then copied to a CD-R, then finally from there to my NAS in 2016.
Full version with more bits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5YUZCNOB-Y
I never heard of SuperDisk before
IIRC, one of the great features about this drive was that it could read ordinary floppy disks as well – unlike the Iomega ZIP drive. Also, even though that Wikipedia article only shows external drives, we had internal LS120 drives. So, unlike the ZIP drive, the LS120 really was a backwards compatible thing and you could use it just like a normal floppy disk drive. (Plus, at 120 MB, it was a little larger than ZIP at 100 MB.)
For a very brief moment, it looked like LS120 was the new “standard”. 😅 IIRC, they even put them in pre-assembled PCs that you could buy in shops (anyone remember “Vobis”?). It quickly became irrelevant, though, since CD-RWs offered a much larger capacity soon after …
Do you still listen to that old file every now and then or do just keep it around for sentimental value?
Nah, it’s just one of the many old files that I still have lying around. 😅 (I don’t really listen to that kind of music anymore, tbh.)