Blank VHS covers are always artistically fantastic.
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For me it would be a new external hard drive for all my data hoarding
I remember getting a stack of blank CDs for christmas. Loved it. Burned so many CDs, made my own mix tracks, gave them out to people I liked and they returned in kind. Shit was cash.
It's so difficult to share music with people now
A spool of plastic filament.
Ahh, G28 sweet G28
Anyone is free to gift me HDDs or SSDs.
In fact, if anyone wants to contribute to my holidays present with random computer parts, be my guest.
Don't even have to be new parts. Just whatever you have laying around from the last few years.
I've built one working computer from the remains of three.
I'll take my chances.
Same, my media server has been ship of thesused out of my past few desktops.
If it works, it works!
How many leftover working parts were there, or was it a perfect fit with no surplus?
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No, and I was around when VHS was popular.
the equivelent now is a 2TB ~ 8TB External Solid State Drive.
1 tape using SLP could hold 360 minutes.
LP it could hold 240 minutes.
So if you were poor there'd be tapes with 4.5 movies worth of terrible quality movies in order with one tape holding the first half of Hellraiser 2 and another holding the second half lol.
A five pack of blank tapes would be $20. So $20 essentially 700mb shitty cd sized video files for a movie. 4.5x5 = 30 movies at 700mb. 30x.700 = 21gb of storage.
A platter drive currently gets about $7/tb if you're going budget. $20 = ~3tb of storage.
142x the storage for the same price. And you can splurge on nice 1.4gb 1080p x265 rips instead. 3000/1.4= ~2143 movies for the same price lol.
E: Let's not even get into the cost of renting first, and owning two vcrs lol.
It's been so long since I have seen one of these that I forgot that Scotch was more than just an adhesive company.
They are a tape company
They're a 3M brand. They make basically everything.
I'm only just now realizing they're the same company.
so Scotch, the tape company, also sold tapes? 🤨
You need anything taped? Scotch had your back.
Scotch is more of a brand name. 3M is the parent company, and they make nearly everything
Why get new tapes when one battered and war-torn tape is all you need? Especially the part where you guess (incorrectly) what's safe to copy over, angering your family. Make sure you set the record speed properly!
Copying over our wedding was a mistake anybody could’ve made
A 20 TB hard drive
More storage for the media server NAS, which I then share with family and friends.
I'm buying you the cheapest used hard drives from ebay coupled with the SSDs from wish.com.
... I'll make sure to have enough redundancies 😬
That graphic design awakens some memories
The equivalent would probably either be something like external hard drives or thumb drives. That, or going online and finding blank VCR tapes, CDs, or DVDs for sale. I assume it's harder for VCR tapes, but I know you can still find CDs and DVDs at some stores.
I got lucky because towards the beginning of fall quarter at the college I attend, they were getting rid of an unopened stack of blank DVDs for free. Such a great gift, despite me getting them for free.
I'd still love to get an LTO drive and some tapes for christmas.
The equivalent now is a package of socks that don't suck.
8/10 people in developed nations would love a 64gb SD Card, a lot would also be thrilled over a pack of USB Memory cards or even a 32 or 16 gb micro-SD with normal SD adapter card. Is it micro or mini? I get them confused but one of those works for a lot of stuff and the other hasn't been produced since 2009.
a 5 pack of flash drives? I always seem to be out of those
I was listening to a podcast and this older guy who used to tape trade, was saying that in the early 80s, VHS was new and a good player would cost like $2k in today's money. A blank VHS tape used to go for like $50+each. New Hollywood movie releases on VHS in those days were around $80
if youre a vhs enthusiast like i am its actually dtill a great gift lol
I got a 10-pack of 3.5" floppies at one point.
Maybe a stocking with m.2 drives spilling over.
Still are, I'd love if my family got me some blank tapes for Christmas
A gift card? Like Play, Apple, Xbox, Playstation, etc.
I can still smell, taste and hear those cassettes...
They were so good in the morning with coffee
Oh baby
barely but yes. ugh
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