• computergeek125@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        LaserDisc ran at up to 1800 RPM also in a 30cm form factor

        In the Tech Connections video on them, they sound like they’re taking off when they spool up.

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      2 months ago

      A very good friend of mine had one of these when I was a kid. We called it laserdisc. I couldn’t tell you how that started.

      So, when I got to high school and they were using actual laserdiscs I said, “Where’s the cool outer shell? Is this just like, a school laserdisc setup?” Some kids argued with me that I didn’t know what I was talking about.

      I clearly remembered watching Star Wars on them and being mesmerized by that case.

      Years later I got to thinking about it and googled “laserdisc with hard casing, mechanism removes disc when played”. Nothing. I chalked it up to it being some kind of false memory. Maybe I was just remembering the sleeve and my buddy was putting the movies in the player in a way that made me think it worked like that.

      It wasn’t until years later that I seen a techmoan video in my feed and I was like, “THAT!! That’s what I’ve been talking about all these years!! It’s fucking vinyl! NO WAY!”

      I was always tech obsessed so it nearly drove me crazy anytime I thought about it. He’d been dead for years so I couldn’t ask him. His dad and sister had no idea what I was talking about. “He traded a lot stuff around so there’s no telling what he had. There was mismatched technology all over this place.”