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Old Floppy Drive Becomes New Turntable
vinyl1 writes "This must be the ultimate in retro-cool hardware hacking. The floppy drive is obsolete, but the turntable is not, and that got one guy to thinking. He provides a full tutorial on how to turn that worthless old floppy drive into a most desirable piece of audio gear."
No need to mod anything, just get an old 8" floppy drive hook it up to your amp and speakers and pop an EP in it. That leaves you with an inch of headroom. Brings new meaning to the term "scratching" I suppose.
I got two floppy drives and a microphone!
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is a DIY turntable out of a 52xCD reader. Provided your on a sufficient amount of drugs.
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.. or because he cannot find a date.
...a hack allows you to read obsolete media of one type with obsolete hardware of another type.
Ummm... wouldn't the turntable actually turning be a dead givaway???
You don't think enough... therefore you better not be!
He's using an old motor AS A MOTOR. My mind is blown. I didn't think such a thing was possible.
Give this man a prize!
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You need a more powerful laser.
...to hack a BIOS so that we can starting booting from vinyl.
Sounds like a good plan for a neat article:
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"How to turn an expensive top-of-the-range set of computer parts into a diy, low-quality turntable"
Would be a big hit on
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I sent a complaint to root@localhost just in case.
Just a minute... I have an email...
that part's not working out so well....
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Well, I haven't used a turntable for over 10 years, but I have used a floppy drive 2-3 times in the past year. Therefore the obsoleteness quotient of the turntable is much higher in my book. On top of that there are new types of floppy drives that have built-in flash media readers that promise to be far more useful than the plain old flppy drive - I bought one recently and it looks like I might use it 5-6 times a year!
I've noticed my girlfriend encourages me to pursue my hobbies, but...
Congratulations, you have now turned into an old woman. Please leave your balls at the nearest store.
"... turn that worthless old floppy drive into a most desirable piece of audio gear."
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It'll play my 8-track tapes??
Oh
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You know, I have one simple request: and that is turntables with frickin' laser beams on their tonearms!
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Don't pay him too much mind. He used to work in the CRT industry measuring "viewable" size.
One of my treasured posessions is an old external SCSI CD-ROM drive (with a digital audio out) I got it out of the trash at work many years ago. I tell my audiophile friends it's my elite CD transport. It meets all the requirements: it doesn't look like one they've seen before, it doesn't even have a D/A converter, it requires a weird process to load a CD (uses the old CD trays), and, best of all, it has no cue or review buttons, nor does it have a remote. Nothing says audiophile like a bad user interface!
If one of my audiophile buddies doubts I spent $2000 on it, I show him the old SCSI cable I have connected (only on the one end), which is about half an inch thick, and ask him if his connection cable is that good.
I've had more fun with this thing than one man should rightly have. It does a fine job of playing CDs, too - back when CD ROM drives cost $400, they built them solidly - I never did find out why someone threw it away. Hmmm, maybe I should start claiming it uses tubes internally - nothing makes a digital signal sound good like using tubes!
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