A floppy drive orchestra!!!

[Dr Huge Longjohns]

This person might have too much time on their hands...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B522GbH3D8

Here's how this insane setup works...

http://silent.org.pl/home/2016/07/06/return-of-the-floppies/

[Drew Stephenson]

I love stuff like that!

[Dr Huge Longjohns]

Me too. Completely mad! I thought it was just samples but certainly not

[Martin Walker]

This is good enough to stand alone as a remix.

Clever stuff!

Martin

[paul tha other]

awesome

[BJG145]

That's pretty amazing.

[Luke W]

The guitar solo is just way too good

[Eddy Deegan]

I was a little sceptical, but having watched it... it really is good!

[Dr Huge Longjohns]

I don't suppose the younger visitors here have ever seen a floppy drive!

[ManFromGlass]

Isn’t that where your steering wheel is a bit loose?

[Luke W]

I don't suppose the younger visitors here have ever seen a floppy drive!

[ef37a]

I am as mad as hell!
With Huge, the Floppytronics people and the TOTALLY magical nature of that setup!

Mad because I am not doing things I should, the place is a tip and NOW I have a further massive distraction to learn about and listen to!!

Dave.

[Dr Huge Longjohns]

Life's too short for tidying when there are mad musical rabbit holes to explore!

[Martin Walker]

Life's too short for tidying when there are mad musical rabbit holes to explore!

Too right Dr. Huge - rock on!

Martin

[ef37a]

I don't suppose the younger visitors here have ever seen a floppy drive!

What would REALLY confuse them was WHY they were called "floppy" because neither size were!

Dave.

[Sam Spoons]

There was a suggestion that when 3.5" mini floppy discs came out they be referred to as 'crunchy discs'

[Drew Stephenson]

In South Africa they used call them Stiffies to differentiate from the 7" ones that were still common at the time.

[Sam Spoons]

I remember 5 ¼" floppies, my BBC Master 128 has a very expensive external floppy drive which used them...

[Dr Huge Longjohns]

What were those clear plastic things with tape in called? You used them for much bigger files?

[ManFromGlass]

Tape dispensers?

[Dr Huge Longjohns]

They were something drives, we used to use them for large artwork files, for example, mid-late 80s??

[Kwackman]

They were something drives, we used to use them for large artwork files, for example, mid-late 80s??

I think I remember those being used on old AMS Audiofile editors - something like exibite?

[EDIT] Google suggested Exabyte, although that also seems to refer to a value of bytes as well as a system?

[EDIT#2] Googling "AMS Neve Exabyte" got some results showing it did exist as a system. Score for an old man's memory! However, it might have been a propriety system used by AMS, so maybe this isn't the system you were looking for?

[rockydennis]

They were something drives, we used to use them for large artwork files, for example, mid-late 80s??

IBM 3480?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3480_Family

[Rich Hanson]

They were something drives, we used to use them for large artwork files, for example, mid-late 80s??

IBM 3480?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3480_Family

We used to use something like that to back up our MicroVAX(*), we just referred to them as tape cartridges.

(*) for the uninitiated a MicroVAX is not, in fact, a very small vacuum cleaner

[wireman]

They were something drives, we used to use them for large artwork files, for example, mid-late 80s??

IBM 3480?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3480_Family

We used to use something like that to back up our MicroVAX(*), we just referred to them as tape cartridges.

(*) for the uninitiated a MicroVAX is not, in fact, a very small vacuum cleaner

For some reason my brain has dredged up the designation TK50, this may or may not be relevant.

Anyway there were I think multiple sizes of floppies that were floppy and had no hard outer case, came in a sleeve.