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What's the equivalent now? (startrek.website)
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[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago

Blank VHS covers are always artistically fantastic.

[-] Sigmatank@midwest.social 40 points 10 months ago

For me it would be a new external hard drive for all my data hoarding

[-] ares35@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

at their peak, a 5 pack of vhs would cost like 6 bucks, so the equivalent today would be more like a 32gb sd card.

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago
[-] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

A samsung sd card instead of a sandisk one 👍

[-] ares35@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

5x6hrs of shitty quality vs 32gb of digital? yea. it's already accounted for.

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[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

Got some 18TB WD’s over Black Friday weekend for $260 or so a pop 🥰

[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 10 points 10 months ago

Slightly more expensive than VHS then

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Probably cheaper per recording. That HDD can hold a lot more shows than many, many tapes.

[-] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Sets VCR to EP

Challenge accepted

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[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

It's so difficult to share music with people now

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

A spool of plastic filament.

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[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 20 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago

Don't even have to be new parts. Just whatever you have laying around from the last few years.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

I've built one working computer from the remains of three.

I'll take my chances.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, and I was around when VHS was popular.

[-] spudwart@spudwart.com 17 points 10 months ago

the equivelent now is a 2TB ~ 8TB External Solid State Drive.

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[-] Gork@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

It's been so long since I have seen one of these that I forgot that Scotch was more than just an adhesive company.

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

They are a tape company

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 12 points 10 months ago

They're a 3M brand. They make basically everything.

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/our-brands/

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

I'm only just now realizing they're the same company.

[-] kewwwi@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

so Scotch, the tape company, also sold tapes? 🤨

[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago

It seems weird, but makes sense. They already had the equipment to make long, thin ribbons of plastic, after all.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 9 points 10 months ago

You need anything taped? Scotch had your back.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

But I don't need my back taped.

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[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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!

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Copying over our wedding was a mistake anybody could’ve made

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

A 20 TB hard drive

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

More storage for the media server NAS, which I then share with family and friends.

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[-] Damage@slrpnk.net 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That graphic design awakens some memories

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I'd still love to get an LTO drive and some tapes for christmas.

[-] umbraroze@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

You got a 5 pack of VHS tapes? When I was a kid, I once got one VHS tape as a Christmas gift. And it was awesome. Because it had a plastic cover and everything.

Still sits on my childhood home shelf, with that Christmas episode of Garfield and Friends at the beginning. Can't remember what else I recorded on it.

[-] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

My buddy gave me a VHS camcorder and VCR for Christmas in like 2015. My favorite thing to do with them was to buy VHS movies from the thrift store and record home movies over them, but each time I would start to record I would randomly fast forward a minute or two. It was kinda cool and trippy to watch goofy shit we'd do and then it phases into a random scene from Edward Scissorhands before going back into the next adventure of ours.

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

The equivalent now is a package of socks that don't suck.

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

a 5 pack of flash drives? I always seem to be out of those

[-] rsh@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago
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[-] neidu@feddit.nl 5 points 10 months ago

I got a 10-pack of 3.5" floppies at one point.

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[-] BlackNo1@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

if youre a vhs enthusiast like i am its actually dtill a great gift lol

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I got a carton of cigarettes :(
Best Xmas

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Banner year in the Blackout household

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[-] DeskP1loti@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Maybe a stocking with m.2 drives spilling over.

[-] 58008@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I can still smell, taste and hear those cassettes...

[-] yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com 3 points 10 months ago

They were so good in the morning with coffee

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