Post #1770286
2026-04-22 05:52 UTC
Millennial lies!
Porn in the 90’s, that was not in print, was stored on tape. By the mid 90:s the most tech savvy of us saved porn on a “zip disk” which were also primarily tape drives.
Replies (3)
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@ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2026-04-22 07:18
Zip disks were closer to floppies. Magnetic disks and tape are fundamentally different (random access, especially), although the physics behind the R/W operation is the same.
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@mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 09:12
were also primarily tape drives. ? no. zip disks were a shitty removable format that ran off parallel (slowly) or scsi (paying more), or eventually atapi/ide and usb iirc. iomega also made tape drives, but zip disks weren’t it.
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@lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2026-04-22 12:01
I remember trying to convince my dad to buy me a zip drive for this (well I didn’t tell him it was for this) lol.