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Written by never obsolete on 2025-01-27 at 16:49

Computer Chronicles - Best of COMDEX 1996

https://archive.org/details/BestofCo

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Written by danimrich on 2025-01-27 at 17:03

@256

30 years later, this seems like something that @NanoRaptor could have dreamt up.

(~7min 30s)

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Written by Detlef Borchers on 2025-01-27 at 17:15

@256 Oh, ich habe von dieser Comdex auch solche Flopicos mitgebracht. Besser waren die Flopticals mit 21 MB, die auch gegen die Wand donnerten.

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Written by J. Peterson on 2025-01-27 at 21:16

@256 Has anybody actually seen one in the wild? Might've been vaporware.

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Written by Gulf of Gregly on 2025-01-27 at 23:54

@isonno @256 Oh, I’d bet it was almost certainly vaporware. Or never made it past the prototype stage, anyway.

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Written by Karl Baron on 2025-01-29 at 04:35

@isonno @256 I found a Japanese source (all the English results just refer to the Computer Chronicles video) that states they were only planning on selling them to OEMs first to establish the standard https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/970217/fdd.htm

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Written by europlus :autisminf: on 2025-01-28 at 10:25

@256 @billgoats how’d that work out for them?

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