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corbet

Jonathan Corbet

Ah the memories one finds at the bottom of a desk drawer... Once upon a time this was a really cool thing.
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bignose@sw-development-is.social

bignose

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once upon a time I was a Linux Expert @corbet

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itaru@mstdn.party

Itaru Kitayama

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@corbet only real experts can use it.

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rbowen@mastodon.social

Rbowen

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@corbet I've got one of those on my office wall.

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clarfonthey@toot.cat

clar fon

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@corbet I had no idea they made… truncated CDs? what shape even is that

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corbet

Jonathan Corbet

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@clarfonthey It was business-card size, meant to fit in a wallet.
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clarfonthey@toot.cat

clar fon

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@corbet huh, TIL! that means this disc is actually smaller than I thought: I thought it was a regular-sized CD being truncated, but it's actually one of those smaller ones, like the GameCube used. I guess that if there's no data on those outer rings, they're not really needed, but… it still feels weird

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lkundrak@metalhead.club

Lubko Van Ape 🇺🇦

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@corbet read only memories, specifically

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lkundrak@metalhead.club

Lubko Van Ape 🇺🇦

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@corbet @clarfonthey and they didn't resonate well with some cd drives. bad vibes

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scrufulufugus@fosstodon.org

scrufulufugus

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@corbet @jarkko It is **still** a really cool thing.

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soaproot@sfba.social

soaproot

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@corbet @clarfonthey A bit of a novelty item even at the time but widely enough distributed at least in a promotional context for me to remember the phrase "bootable business card"

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motp@chaos.social

Bjørn Bürger

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@corbet
I liked those, but they vibrated a lot and despite looking cool, one of them experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly inside the CD-ROM drive, damaging the drive.

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