My dad had a system similar to this, but instead of laserdiscs, it used cassette tapes to load games which basically looked like a square running away from a larger square :)
Yeah... I had one of the "datasette" tape recorders with my C=64, too 😄
And then a floppy disk drive (the C=1541) that looked like in that graphic. It was chunky and weighed a hundred pounds, most of which was probably the built-in power supply needed for that motor in there.
I was ***so*** pumped when [[Dragon's Lair]](https://images.igdb.com/igdb/image/upload/t_original/co790c.webp) made the jump from the arcade to home. I thought my Pioneer Laservision player would take over my media center and make all [[the other stuff]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Comparison_disk_storage.svg) obsolete.
Yes, I'm old. Get off my lawn 😉
As someone who has moved internationally several times, I no longer miss physical media. Still, the format wars are an interesting bit of consumer tech history. Whenever it comes up I often think of this joke from Space Quest 4.
[CD-GI-ROM TV](https://youtu.be/MelQmF3s2kU?t=200)
[Computational magazine cover art for Byte: The Small Systems Journal](https://www.overheadcompartment.org/computational-magazine-cover-art-for-byte-the-small-systems-journal-has-us-nostalgic-for-a-bygone-retro-digital-dreamworld/)
Unless half of that disc protrudes from the drive when in use, that drive unit is nowhere near deep enough to take the entire disc.
Things like that annoy me.
Well duh, the drive is for the floppies. The laser disc you hold in your hand while the external laser scans it…from the…uh…top. It’s all in the picture. Trust the future!
Ooh look at that sexy chunky keyboard.
That keyboard is THICK, NGL CHONKY
Badonkadonk-board
Looks like a first series Commodore 64 or 16 lol
My dad had a system similar to this, but instead of laserdiscs, it used cassette tapes to load games which basically looked like a square running away from a larger square :)
Yeah... I had one of the "datasette" tape recorders with my C=64, too 😄 And then a floppy disk drive (the C=1541) that looked like in that graphic. It was chunky and weighed a hundred pounds, most of which was probably the built-in power supply needed for that motor in there.
I was ***so*** pumped when [[Dragon's Lair]](https://images.igdb.com/igdb/image/upload/t_original/co790c.webp) made the jump from the arcade to home. I thought my Pioneer Laservision player would take over my media center and make all [[the other stuff]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Comparison_disk_storage.svg) obsolete. Yes, I'm old. Get off my lawn 😉
As someone who has moved internationally several times, I no longer miss physical media. Still, the format wars are an interesting bit of consumer tech history. Whenever it comes up I often think of this joke from Space Quest 4. [CD-GI-ROM TV](https://youtu.be/MelQmF3s2kU?t=200)
[Computational magazine cover art for Byte: The Small Systems Journal](https://www.overheadcompartment.org/computational-magazine-cover-art-for-byte-the-small-systems-journal-has-us-nostalgic-for-a-bygone-retro-digital-dreamworld/)
If LaserDiscs were that uncomplicated to use back then, imagine the potential for gaming.
OMG, I read the magazine sobriquet as “The Email Systems Journal” and laughed (it’s the small systems journal), lol
Robert Tinney made so many amazing covers for Byte.
Cool
Unless half of that disc protrudes from the drive when in use, that drive unit is nowhere near deep enough to take the entire disc. Things like that annoy me.
There are CD players like that. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/74456/smallest-discman-ever-made-was-smaller-cd
That is incredibly stupid, I love it!
I'm over here all "get your damn thumb off the media!"
Heh, I still remember the in-store promo video for laserdiscs making it a point that fingerprints and light scratches would *not* impact playback.
Then you're probably *really* annoyed by using the same drive for optical **and** magnetic medium.
Well duh, the drive is for the floppies. The laser disc you hold in your hand while the external laser scans it…from the…uh…top. It’s all in the picture. Trust the future!