Museum of Obsolete Media
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If you wonder how this witchcraft is achieved:
#dvdram disks are "hard sectored" more or less like older style hard disks and floppies were. This essentially turns the DVD-RAM disk into thousands of individually addressable "mini rewritable dvds"
The DVD […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
#dvdram disks are "hard sectored" more or less like older style hard disks and floppies were. This essentially turns the DVD-RAM disk into thousands of individually addressable "mini rewritable dvds"
The DVD […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
February 7, 2026 at 4:55 PM
If you wonder how this witchcraft is achieved:
#dvdram disks are "hard sectored" more or less like older style hard disks and floppies were. This essentially turns the DVD-RAM disk into thousands of individually addressable "mini rewritable dvds"
The DVD […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
#dvdram disks are "hard sectored" more or less like older style hard disks and floppies were. This essentially turns the DVD-RAM disk into thousands of individually addressable "mini rewritable dvds"
The DVD […]
[Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx]
@ghalfacree There are lots of examples, but the one that sticks out for me is HD-DVD that came out a few months after I started collecting and was gone in 2008.
January 13, 2026 at 7:34 PM
@ghalfacree There are lots of examples, but the one that sticks out for me is HD-DVD that came out a few months after I started collecting and was gone in 2008.
Here's a comparison photo for scale with a Microcassette, Pocket Rocker cartridge, and Bandai micro cartridge.
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Here's a comparison photo for scale with a Microcassette, Pocket Rocker cartridge, and Bandai micro cartridge.
The Karat film cartridge was reintroduced as the Agfa Rapid cartridge in 1964. This was almost identical, the main difference being a metal tab on the back of the cartridge that helped the camera identify the speed of the film.
September 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The Karat film cartridge was reintroduced as the Agfa Rapid cartridge in 1964. This was almost identical, the main difference being a metal tab on the back of the cartridge that helped the camera identify the speed of the film.
@jernej__s if you ever get the chance to find out what brand they are, I'd be interested to learn
August 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
@jernej__s if you ever get the chance to find out what brand they are, I'd be interested to learn