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

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    5 days ago

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

    • @fjordbasa
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      34 days ago

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

    • @LovableSidekick
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      35 days ago

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

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        74 days ago

        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.

        • @LovableSidekick
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          44 days 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!

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          34 days ago

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