@foone "Keep talking" you say like it's rhetorical.
I'm trying to remember some of the other relevant things from the EBES4 ... there was a preheater so adiabatic cooling wouldn't shrink the wafer. Registration crosses.
... I lost a wafer off the stage at one point through user error, but that's only a problem because the stage translated in X and Y.
How high a vacuum do you think we're gonna need for this? Because I have opinions about pumps.
@48kRAM@foone my son is my primary caddy for all things further away than my desktop. Disks, controllers, glasses, he handles all formats and unlike some CD caddies from 90s I have never once lost him or accidentally left him stuck inside a computer I sold.
@bizzl I've looked into making that, no joke. I've played with some drives that have had seriously over-powered ejects, so obviously I wanted to maximize it for hilarity reasons
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At a place I worked in high school, the 8" drives were on a shelf above the terminal. If you reached up and hit the eject/release button and forgot to put your hand over the opening, the floppy would eject and sail over your head across the room (they were somehow way more aerodynamic than 5¼ disks.) @bizzl
@foone Be careful- computers are tricky. I bought a bunch of little remote control backhoes and excavators, but it turns out “data mining” is not AT ALL what it sounds like. :(
@foone Yeah but I mean the ones where you just deposit the disc on the tray, the tray retreats back inside and then a rotor lowers to grab the disc's center...
@foone my earliest computer memories were of junior high students abusing 5 1/4” floppies, so I pretty much always thought of it as an ephemeral media anyway. you may as well store your data on the wings of angels
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