Want to see _inside_ of the Clik PCMCIA drive? Here's a bonus clip for you! kzread.info/dash/bejne/hYxoz6NrnZvRf5M.html I didn't fully disassemble it when I made the Oddware episode because doing so destroys the drive, just due to the glue used and flimsy metal getting bent -- at least without the correct tools/skills. But well, now that I am convinced the drive is very much dead anyway, I figured "hey, why not rip it open and look at its guts."

@toadette2097

6 жыл бұрын

Keep up the great work! I love your videos

@spidermcgavenport8767

6 жыл бұрын

Yahoo you found one thank you LGR your video's are outstanding.

@IndygoEEI

6 жыл бұрын

RIP Clik Drive....

@xXxmlg_vacxXx

6 жыл бұрын

LGR ,

@Vladimir-hq1ne

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I worked at Iomega during the Clik era. They were **really** proud of the sound it made when you put a disk in. Management wanted it to feel like a clicky ball point pen for some reason. I think that's why they stuck with the name for so long, even in the face of the Click of Death. They were very attached to that idea. A bit of trivia: the movie Minority Report used removable media shaped like a Clik disk. You can see the little black plastic corners and the overall shape of the thing, but all the actual metal and disk bits were replaced with a transparent piece. The holographic UI effects were then layered onto the transparent portion.

@robertmartin6800

8 ай бұрын

It is a good sound.

@EddieSlabb

4 ай бұрын

Great story about what the thinking was in the office at the time! Thanks for the story friend!

@tomyyoung2624

3 ай бұрын

Yes Iomega needs to improve its drives

You should do an Oddware episode for April Fools which treats something not odd (like USB drives) as if they never caught on and are not in use today.

@Zeriel00

6 жыл бұрын

Nono a FUTURE episode reviewing current tech as old, and he can dress up like he's from the future xD

@michaelg1915

5 жыл бұрын

@@Zeriel00 or a past episode where he current tech as the future and dresses like he's in the past.

@comradepeaches9041

5 жыл бұрын

A USB-C 128 GB flash drive would seem like alien tech to someone in the 90s.

@frtard

5 жыл бұрын

Or like a MuVo MP3 player. April fools plus real video in one!

@TheDemocrab

5 жыл бұрын

@@Zeriel00 Or an episode where he reviews say, an Apple II (ie. 1977 tech) dressed and acting as though it's the early 90s. Presented as being "from the LGR vault"

Duke 3D: LGR's version of: "Can it run Crysis?" :D

@raven4k998

3 жыл бұрын

nope it's capacity is way to low lol

@udaaz

3 жыл бұрын

Cool

@pxldsilz6828

2 жыл бұрын

Lemme see if I can PKZip or stuffit onto a Mac 512 and see if it can

The PCMCIA versions dying like that was a common occurrence in my experience. I was a tech at a high volume (50+ daily) laptop repair facility from the late 90's through the 2000's. A particular pharmaceutical customer used those Clik drives along with Zip drives for additional backup storage for all their field reps. It seemed like the PCMCIA Clik drives were quite unreliable for them, not to mention the click of death on the Zip drives also being a big issue. As broadband service rolled out to more and more areas in the early 2000's they adopted using client/server based backup software instead and phased out all forms of media like the Clik and Zip drives which meant the facility I worked at got thousands of those drives, media and so on dumped on us when that happened!

@tomyyoung2624

Ай бұрын

yepe it's capacity is way to low lol

You know Clint, I had no interest in the kind of things you're interested in until I started watching your videos. I used to just watch your video game reviews for a quick caption of what I could expect to find, eventually migrating myself to your other videos to see what you did. Honestly I'm still not that jazzed on most of the old hardware, it's how enraptured you are; you know your shit on so many subjects, and honestly it's your interest in the subject that holds my interest in your videos. I mean I just spent 17 minutes watching a video about a freakin zipdrive. You are extremely engaging and you do an absolutely fantastic job, and I just wanted to say thank you.

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

And thank _you_ for the kind words, I'm glad the videos have struck a chord :)

@Strawberry92fs

6 жыл бұрын

I'm vaguely interested in any sort of outdated computer technology, but there's no way I'd know half as much about any of it without people like you that make it entertaining to learn about. Keep doing what you do, man.

@tyttuut

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like this video really *clik-d* with you.

@futhamucka

6 жыл бұрын

that was terrible. I love it.

@yuub0t413

6 жыл бұрын

Dan Reader Absolutely know how you feel

Oh man the sound of insertion for those disks is pretty satisfying

@spokehedz

6 жыл бұрын

I can confirm it is EXTREMELY satisfying doing the clicking as well.

@danieldunlap4077

6 жыл бұрын

thats what SHE said

@MrJustinUSCM

6 жыл бұрын

Remind me of the click of an irl p90 magazine being pulled out it's the most statifying thing every

@MichaelRabbitBass3

5 жыл бұрын

I want one just for that reason.

13:16 Well not a Click of Death but the Death of a Clik, huh?

@dinitroacetylen

6 жыл бұрын

Iomega might as well be named "Clicks and Death Incorporated".

@tomyyoung2624

3 ай бұрын

Yes, we did test it on the Bonnevie salt flats

I remember seeing these on the R&D desk when I was working at Iomega in 1997. For '97 tech they were amazing, but being released in '99 they were pretty much a flash in the pan. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

It could hold an entire mp3 file and a picture of Cindy Crawford at the same time! Wow!

@naota3k

6 жыл бұрын

It's the future!

@baronvonlimbourgh1716

5 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm cindy crawford....... Whatever happened to her? She must be getting a pension now lol..

@mbii7667

Жыл бұрын

It could hold quite a few of both, at 40 MB

That product at 5:40 is the most early 2000's thing I've ever seen. Look at those beautiful rounded edges. Look at that oval screen. It's like staring into the face of early 2000's God.

@CamdenBloke

6 жыл бұрын

Blue Laser I had one. It was great

@josecarlosxyz

4 жыл бұрын

I forgot that 2000’s is now kind of vintage for kids

@AztecCroc

3 жыл бұрын

@@josecarlosxyz "For kids"? The early 2000s are as vintage now as the 90's were in 2010.

I feel like if you were able to press the files of Duke Nukem 3D onto a Vinyl Record, and somehow play it off of that you would. You already have ways to store it on a VHS tape.

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

I absolutely would, haha. I know there were some games distributed on flexi disc vinyl!

@stevethepocket

6 жыл бұрын

Were you supposed to plug your stereo into a tape drive cable?

@TheTurnipKing

6 жыл бұрын

larryinc64 technically certain models of PC do have tape inputs (PCJR, etc) but most of these aren't capable of running Duke3D

@FernieCanto

6 жыл бұрын

I do wonder, considering today's technology, how much data would fit on one side of a vinyl record...

@MarioManTV

6 жыл бұрын

Fernie Canto estimates vary widely, but over 100 MB seems reasonable. Compression could push it further depending on the data stored. See: www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/27zksf/theoretically_what_is_the_data_capacity_of_a/

"Boss, our technology is becoming obsolete. What do we do?" "Carry on and double-down."

@acumenium8157

3 жыл бұрын

Wait, you were there during the insider meetings at Intel from 2011-2019? And nVidia's Tegra CPU branch _since_ 2012?

@Landrew0

3 жыл бұрын

@@acumenium8157 It's called "satire."

@acumenium8157

3 жыл бұрын

@@Landrew0 Strikingly accurate! :D

@666spalony

3 жыл бұрын

"There'll be peace when you are done"

“Mmmm Windows 95 ❤️” I appreciate the subtitles, Clint! English is not my native language so having very well written subtitles helps a lot to better understand what you’re seeing. You da’ man, Clint!

@laneharder9993

6 жыл бұрын

Xqrement I like to watch LGR with subtitles just because of the little details like that thrown into the captions

@Moodie111

5 жыл бұрын

@Xqrement: For someone who claims that English is not their native language you seem to have an excellent command of it, at least based on your comment above. Congratulations! You know English better that 90% of everyone who's ever commented on KZread!

@singleproppilot

3 жыл бұрын

Likewise. I love having the subtitles because I have obnoxiously loud little kids that make it hard to hear anything.

go back to 1999 with a 64gb usb stick and watch people loose their minds.

@ceneblock

6 жыл бұрын

Why not 1984 and how many versions of apple basic? Why not 1950's and see how people freak out with their ENEACs?

@puschelhornchen9484

5 жыл бұрын

Just you won't get the necessary drivers ^_^

@UN4YA

4 жыл бұрын

@@ceneblock its ENIACs, not ENEACs.

@Strothy2

4 жыл бұрын

64GB? Just take a 8TB HDD with you...

@Catastropheshe

4 жыл бұрын

Why not 128 or 1tb

I remember seeing those in stores back in the day... Never crossed my mind to buy one. $300 was back then food for a month plus a few movie tickets...

@rczeien

4 жыл бұрын

stamasd now that’s a few movie tickets.

@kosztaz87

4 жыл бұрын

What kind of lifestyle do you have now? $300 is enough money to buy food for TWO months and a few cinema tickets, NOW.

@therealmistermemer

2 жыл бұрын

@@kosztaz87 He probably ate out a lot.

@HobbiesGamesChillin

2 ай бұрын

@@kosztaz87this didn’t age well 300 gets you a loaf of bread and they kick you in the crotch on the way out

@kosztaz87

2 ай бұрын

@@HobbiesGamesChillin Yeah things have gone to sh*t the last few years.

Plus that Windows 95 start up sound was sweet, sweet nostalgia.

@TinchoX

6 жыл бұрын

Yuupp

@NameEntry

6 жыл бұрын

I heard that so much as a young adult. Wow.

@morganrussman

6 жыл бұрын

:D

@cfjruth

6 жыл бұрын

Good ol' Windows 95. Yeah, that startup sound definitely brings back the memories.

@dmitriinikolaev917

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you are right!)

That Clik! Camera kit has more parts and assembly than some Lego sets.

@UNSCPILOT

4 жыл бұрын

Cost about the same though

I love the concept of these things. They're like a 1980's idea of what future storage media might look like.

@sam_64

2 жыл бұрын

90s and there were way better storage mediums around back then.

The disks are adorable, it would be so cool to have a revival of that design

LGR: Nat Geo of vintage computing. Love your channel, takes me back to when I started to work with computers more seriously.

The dying drive sounded like a distressed duck ;(

@ThumpertTheFascistCottontail

6 жыл бұрын

Couldn't handle The Duke.

@januskristensen4930

5 жыл бұрын

Clik

@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the air-horn noise in that Thug Life meme

The "click of death" is something I immediately thought of when I saw the title of this video. A bit of a marketing blunder there, since the term 'click of death' STARTED with iomega zip disc drives. It now refers to similar sounds from dead hard drives when the read/write heads continuously attempt and fail to seek, so even now it isn't an especially good idea. It's a fascinating little thing and its appearance reminds me a little of the UMDs that the PSP used - optical discs built in to their own protective caddy, instead of a magnetic disc in the case of the Clik. Too bad for it that flash memory and compact HDDs ended up overtaking it rapidly in pretty much every way.

@SL4RK

4 жыл бұрын

lomega is clearly not deprived of self-irony (I apologize in advance for my English)

@Gungho73

4 жыл бұрын

You can't blame Sony for trying to make yet another properietary method of memory they owned. Taking chances like that has put the company in the place it is today! I do blame them however for that god awful naming convention. UMD is irony in of itself.

I found one of these in clearance bin once around Father's Day long ago, and I also thought the idea was really neat (I used to use Zip disks a lot for work anyways), so I got a couple and gave one to Dad. Neither of us ever used it, at all (afaik). I never even opened mine I just had no actual use for it.

Your videos are great to show to my 12 year old stepdaughter who believes nothing existed before smartphones and tablets.

@CanuckGod

6 жыл бұрын

Geez... when I was 12, I was 4 years away from getting my first PC (a 486 with single speed CD-ROM and 200 MB hard drive).

@iamjustapudgiebudgie3137

6 жыл бұрын

[kryode] that’s awesome! Long live old technology! I collected old cameras for the longest and camcorders and cameras for the 80s and 90s are truly my favorites

@ErisAlter

6 жыл бұрын

Molly Monoxide I’m 14 and for some reason this stuff just plain pleases me. And makes me want to buy old hardware.

@tiskofamilyskoric5901

6 жыл бұрын

I am also of the same class if age as [kyrode] and I also just adore 'old' tech. I have an Apple 2 that I use on a daily basis to make simple games.

@robintst

6 жыл бұрын

When I was 12, I had a Commodore Amiga 1000 with expanded RAM that raised it to a total of 1 MB. They weren't very popular or widespread in the US but my brother was loyal to the Commodore brand so I just followed suit because I was kid and just wanted to fit in with the older crowd. Nearly all my games were cracked PAL copies he'd get from BBS's and Commodore Club meetings in the basement of a nearby bingo hall. Hehehe.

13:00 The sounds it made when it died was just satisfying, lovely!

@brziperiod

2 жыл бұрын

Sounded like an engine lmao but like a really depressing motorcycle engine

Hey Clint, you're looking really well. Thanks so much for your videos. I never knew that watching someone go thrifting and discuss pieces of tech (that I had little prior interest in!) could be such great therapy during this current low point I'm experiencing. I've seen many comments about people enjoying your videos during depressive or difficult phases; the fact that your honest, enthusiastic self and your well-made videos have helped so many get through little rough patches in life is something you should be incredibly proud of.

Man. Seeing your videos increase in production value over the years is amazing. Great content!

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Almost reminds me of a PSP UMD.

@papabones8753

6 жыл бұрын

There's a format that was destined to die(and sucked).

@midnightcs1482

6 жыл бұрын

lmfao if you honestly think the umd format died or was close to dying then you're lost.

@spokehedz

6 жыл бұрын

If only they would have put the shutter on the UMD! That was the thing that killed that format. It was plenty good for what it was designed for, but they just got so incredibly dirty so fast that it was just... Blah.

@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R

6 жыл бұрын

Is it used anywhere else? I'm not trying to argue, I'm just curious.

@jcreazy

6 жыл бұрын

No, UMD died in 2014. Nothing uses it anymore.

I still have around 80 of these things, filled with early 2000 documents galore. I first bought one for my Sony PictureBook (PCMCIA version), remember those, I even had the best and last one, though any computer with a Transmeta CPU, can't really be called the best, in fact the previous generation using a Pentium 2, was actually faster. Though I used Debian Linux, so the PictureBook wasn't that slow. I continued to use the Click drive for about 10 years in almost all of my notebooks and early tablets, I actually loved the medium, it was perfect for storing data for long deration's of time that needed to still be accessible in a moments notice. I finally replaced the system with a Sony Magneto-optical drive and than later Mini-Disks, yes, Sony actually made a data orientated Mini-Disk drive, the very rare Sony MDH-10, I still use it today for data when I want to store data at the bank, Don't worry, I have two, unopened Sony MDH-10 drives, I bought all three of them when they were being sold for less than $100. MiniDisk data disks actually last a long time, I have yet to have seen any data corruption as of yet.

@gregdaweson4657

2 жыл бұрын

I use dvd-ram.

Old Ben: "Iomega - that's a name I've not heard in long time"

@tomypower4898

4 жыл бұрын

Vero Tabares Yes lomega needs to improve its drives.

Dear LGR, thank you for playing that Windows 95 boot sound every time. Even if I didn't have a PC when it came out (I was just a yougin'), I used to go to my uncle who always had all the greatest hardware. And even if I didn't understand it back then, this sound coming through his overpowered Cambridge Soundworks system (with subwoofer!), reminded me of the excitement that awaits. Keep it up!

13:13 That's just the TURBO kicking in! Don't leave the clutch out, you'll over-rev it. 13:30 See, you flooded it.

I still have a few old flash drives with like 128MB AND 256MB. Back then that was a lot. Seeing as MP3 files were around 3MB it was the main use for having large capacities. People would use CD-R DIsk to put movies in that were like 700MB Per movie

Dude that IBM Microdrive looks so friggen cool! You should def do an Oddware episode on it!!

I remember being completely blown away when the 100 MB ZipDisks came out during the 90s when I was a teenager. Oh, it was at a local CompUSA too. Yet another relic from another time :) Now I'm watching an HD video over a phone that has 128gb of storage and 8gbs of RAM. Amazing how far we have come.

I have to admit, that design and build quality reallz does look great even today. At least for that base drive. Great video as always

I didn't know they had PCMCIA cards like that for non-flash storage, neato All I've ever used were networking cards and various interfaces

@stigrabbid589

6 жыл бұрын

Lassi Kinnunen IBM and Toshiba both made Hard Drives which went into a CompactFlash memory card slot.

@TheTurnipKing

6 жыл бұрын

the Amiga 600 & 1200 would even let you use flash pcmcia memory as a ram expansion iirc. I wonder what it would have made of a clik disk?

@Lukeno52

6 жыл бұрын

Not just IBM and Toshiba; I have a 260MB single-slot Callunacard PC Card HDD, which is delightfully noisy and pretty cool IMO.

@gaatjeniksan3068

6 жыл бұрын

LeiserGeist There were even tv cards for PCMCIA.

@Henchman1977

6 жыл бұрын

There's been just about a PCMCIA everything.....

In 2003 my parents bought my brother and I our first digital cameras. I still have the 32mb compact flash card we bought for mine. Storage used to cost a lot! I remeber being mesmerised by that little square piece of plastic. I can see why storage mediums like this didn't last long. The solid state SD and compact flash cards are so much more elegant.

Oh man, I love LGR. I love Oddware. I love your “will it run Duke 3D?” approach to these things and odd bits. You are a gentleman, and a scholar.

Oh yeah : ) - I had the MP3 player that used those - lots of memories of sitting on the school bus listening to Linkin Park, 'Cos I got High' and 'Baby Got Back'

@MrGravgrav

6 жыл бұрын

Same, I think each one held about 8 or so songs so I carried about 4-6 of them.

@nicholsliwilson

6 жыл бұрын

I’m gutted, my girlfriend and me both used Click! drives back then but I never knew there were Click! based MP3 players until now! I wold probably have bought one if I’d known?

@FernieCanto

6 жыл бұрын

I like cliks and I cannot lie.

@JohnSmith-xq1pz

6 жыл бұрын

Ash Slaughter love your pic. I miss that old dos icon

@Aevilbeast

6 жыл бұрын

Are you sure you aren't confusing it with the Minidisk format...? They do both look a bit similar.

Love when I get a notification for LGR and I happen to be online... WOOT WOOT Thx Clint!

You called the USB thing a "USB key". I've had people totally not understand that terminology on multiple occasions. They had no idea what I meant, and looked at me like I was an alien. Glad to know you're with me, Clint.

I was at Comdex when the click came out.. iOmega gave out these little noise "clickers" culminating in the most annoying show floor ever!

@CanuckGod

6 жыл бұрын

I feel your pain...

@djsquarewave

6 жыл бұрын

They gave those out at MacWorld in San Francisco, too. I think I still have mine somewhere...

@adenowirus

6 жыл бұрын

I wonder if there are any pictures.

@matchmakerchris7617

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha!

Pish posh! In that alphabet soup of late '90s portable storage media, how could you forget the mighty Caleb UHD144 "it" drive!? Actually, the problem was that when it was introduced in 1998, nobody else noticed it, either...

@NepgearGM6.1

6 жыл бұрын

VWestlife hi

@MrJest2

6 жыл бұрын

"Alphabet soup"... my favorite quip was "What does PCMCIA mean?" "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms." :-)

man, all your videos lately feel like LGR Tech Tales, you put so much effort in all of them!

I gotta say that in 2000, the Hip Zip was my first MP3 player and at the time, it got rave reviews for the audio quality. To be honest, I loved that little player at the time. I thought I was the shit when it came to cutting-edge tech. The downside was that the little discs only held about 5 or 6 songs depending on their bit-rate/quality. So, if I was at the gym, I'd end up stopping for a second and changing discs several times through my workout. It's amazing how far we've come with memory storage 22 years later. Now I'm using 2TB and 4TB NVME drives in near-thumb-drive-size enclosures that have unbelievable transfer rates. In 2000, if you told me how fast NVME SSDs were and how much storage they could hold, I would have thought you were on crack.

Ahhhhh, LGR. My favorite excuse to not be working.

Hell yea some oddware to brighten my day

@chrisreynolds6391

6 жыл бұрын

This is really the only thing keeping my going.

Wow, that little PCMCIA floppy disk drive must be the world's smallest model of floppy disk drive! I knew about the bigger ones, but have never been aware of the card-sized ones until now! I wonder how they could ever have fit the mechanics in there! Amazing! Then again, the MicroDrive is amazing too: the world's physically smallest hard disks! They're very amazing to me as well!

Great video! (oooh that Win 95 startup theme ding ding ding) By 2000 I was using my 4X CD-R burner for backing up and was hardly using my Zip drive.

HipZip was my first mp3 player. I selected it because it was the cheapest per MB at the time and I liked swappable storage. It was pretty solid, actually.

A typically good video: thank you. I hope you'll look into the Jaz drive next. I had two Zip drives (100 and 250MB) but the Jaz drive I only saw in advertisements.

@CanuckGod

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, those things were always too expensive for me, I made do with my Zip 100 with half the disks dead inside 3 months.

@jurgmanx4644

5 жыл бұрын

I sold a few Jaz drives. Click drive? Nope.

I honestly absolutely love the way these lil' guys look. They kind of give off a Star Wars vibe to me, miniaturized but solid and durable looking.

Talk about timing! I watched this video over breakfast and by chance was given the PC Card version by the afternoon, cool 🤗! Just hope my one doesn’t die as quick as yours.

Love to hear the W95 Startup sound. Kinda like the 1995 PSX start up; nostalgia

Didn't even know this existed. I switched from Zip to Jazz drives as quick as I could.

@bibasik7

6 жыл бұрын

You mean... as CLIK as i could? I'll show myself the way out.

The sound of that Clik drive dying was glorious! I thought you were playing the sound effect of an air horn.

I had a friend, a very rich friend, that had to have the newest of everything when it came out. He had this in I guess 1999 or so, in the equivalent of what would be a Netbook today. It was in a Sony Vaio machine, so the whole thing was quite cute all-told. I have a Roland Fantom-XR which has a PCMCIA-to-CF adapter in it right now, the card I have in there is 1 GB. I’m so unnecessarily tempted to find a click-drive and see if my Fantom would boot up from it, instead of the CF, just for fun. I probably never will, but you know... This video got me really considering it.

For some reason at 10:44 I got the strange urge to listen to "Buddy Holly" by Weezer.

The Clik! PC Card is shockingly prone to heat wear. They work a lot better if your PC card bay isn't exposed to the heat of the CPU too much. I noticed this on my IBM T23 and it's dock. The internal card slot frequently caused failure in the PC card, to the point it couldn't detect the discs. However, when I insert the card into the dock, far from the laptop's CPU, performance was near perfect with no failure.

@imzjustplayin

5 жыл бұрын

Heat + Magnetic media = bad.

hi there, you brought back my school years back to life, it was the standard for my school medium at the time, they were great. ahhh fond memories

No matter how hard my day sucks, but when i start one of your videos, i become relaxed again :)

Please make a disassembly video of your dead pcmcia drive ! I want to see how they managed to put all the mechanism for a magnetic drive in a such small volume !

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/hYxoz6NrnZvRf5M.html

PCMCIA to Compact Flash adaptors are often used in the Amiga community to act as hard drives.

I finally found 2 different USB Clik!/PocketZip drives which I added to my collection, both on ebay for very reasonable prices. USB versions very rarely seem to show up. Blank disk prices have skyrocketed. Its insane. Awesome video. Very interesting format which I do not remember. I bought an Iomega Zip drive when they came out while in college, then upgraded to a Jazz drive when it came out, graduated, started working and by that time solid state/optical storage replaced all these other formats.

I used to use one of these drives on my Compaq iPaq Pocket PC. You would slide the actual iPaq Pocket PC into a case/jacket that had a built in PCMCIA slot. Then could slide the PCMCIA Click drive into that jacket slot. It was a good way to store all your videos/photos/documents and add 40MB of storage to your iPaq. It was convenient to manage files between a laptop to the Pocket PC without filling up all your Pocket PC storage. It was also easy to swap the Click disks in and out of the PCMCIA slot if you had more than one. I can't remember if my PCMCIA Click drive came with two Click disks or if I bought an extra one separately. Either case, was convenient and handy at the time and yes, that sound was satisfying at the time.

"Damn, those alien bastards are gonna pay for cliking up my ride"

Love your vids Clint

@LGR

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

16:30 I remember this standing on my own store's shelf in Germany, getting older day by day, and not a single customer buying it; occasionally asking about it.

So, I still have my clik drive. The one I got (on clearance back in the day) came with an USB to PCMCIA dock for the PC and the drive itself. The drive and 2 additional clik disks could be placed in this rather nice metal case for storage. (3 if you keep one in the drive). I need to figure out where the dock itself went, as it would make it oh so more useful to actually use the clik on newer systems. Great video as always!

"The adventure is just starting for us!" Excellent hahahah

@tomypower4898

4 жыл бұрын

Rafael Dolinski Yes, we did test it on the bonnevile salt flats

All these overcomplicated obsolete physical media are great. Sometimes I wish we lived in a internetless world so all physical media could be back.

I worked in PC world as a sales advisor around that time in the UK. I saw two boxes and thats it. they did not go to clearance, and they did sell after around 4 months (long time) but we never got any more. The telling factor was that we never got any more of the little disc media that was supposed to work with them, and I don't remember any customers asking for them.

That delightful grinding failure noise is amazing. Worth it just for that.

Reminds me of the Mini-Disc.

@UNSCPILOT

4 жыл бұрын

Discovered I have a couple blank mini-disks and now it's bugging me I have nothing that can read/write to them or use them at all, tempted to hunt down a USB capable device that can run them

@BigDogCountry

4 жыл бұрын

Recorded a bunch of live stuff on MD, not as bad as everyone made it to be.

I have one of those and 3 disks.. It makes a cool noise when writing

My dad had the bulkier camera kit. The only time I really remember him using it was when we went to Disney World in late 2000/early 2001. I'm pretty sure he had the flash card attachment on it while it was in the carrying case, he had a couple of flash cards for his camera and a few clik discs and would swap cards so he could keep taking photos while also copying files onto the disc.

That flashy photo at 11:55 cracks me up

Damn! Great childhood memories! I had some of these together with an Iomega HipZip: www.activewin.com/reviews/hardware/zip/hipzip/images/disks.jpg It was really nice walking around with a bunch of MP3s playing from this tiny disk. The HipZip was really cool and not much larger than a regular tape walk man. And I also messed around with WMA encoding so I could fit more songs on those 40 megabytes.

3:51 for satisfying click sound. You're welcome.

Im still handling and maintaining legacy storage and servers. Click drive is lightyears away and far more advanced. It gives me a big smile knowing that the company i work with still don't plan on migrating their data into modern storage.

It defenitely got that early 2000s look to it too, the way the plastic is finished and the colour use. Brings back memories.

You always upload around lunch, which is when I'm able to watch videos. Yeah, I should be social, but why should I if LGR uploads?

@ChiKitten

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe I'll do that.

Probably not the best design, though it was innovative for its' time. It most certainly did provide a learning tool for others. No, I've never actually used one of these; I had seen it once, but I was a bit too young to comprehend it.

It's nice of you to put the metric system conversions 👍

I remember being very curious about these, they came out around the time I was starting my engineering degreee. A couple years later a friend came to my home for a LAN party and he casually happened to have the PCMCIA one. I was fascinated. Always loved the look of the disks.

🤔 These are somewhat reminiscent of the storage "discs" used in Minority Report.. Hehe

@CheapSushi

6 жыл бұрын

MiniDisc

@MrClassiccarenthusia

6 жыл бұрын

CheapSushi No, the ones in minority report were the same shape and size, however they were transparent bits of glass with in built LCD type display.. Obviously pure fantasy as things currently stand, but still cool nonetheless!

Everything about the camera kit just seems so cumbersome and roundabout, all to transfer a "small" 64MB CF card onto a "large" 40MB clik. Gee I wonder why this failed.

@ceneblock

6 жыл бұрын

64MB in 1999 -- 2005 would have been *very* expensive. I remember spending nearly $50 for a 32MB CF around that time.

Fascinating. I never even heard of pocketZip or Clik. I used Zip100's pretty extensively back in the day and recall hearing about the infamous "click o' death' (fortunately never encountered one) so yeah, ironic that the product was first called that. I also find it puzzling that they had an elegant PCMCIA interface but yet offered that clumsy desktop setup instead of just offering a dock for the PC card with an additional CF reader.

Thanks for the video Clint, I remember seeing the PCMCIA version of this on clearance at Best Buy around 2003 or 2004. I believe it was $40, I did not pick one up but probably should have. It really is an interesting piece of hardware.

Gotta love the old days of 90's pcing where it would say "100% complete!" for like 4-5 minutes straight. No wait that sucked and noone liked it. Bad design microsoft!

@kidwolf0015

3 жыл бұрын

Um... The semi-modern (2015 and newer) lower-end devices running windows 10 that I play around with STILL do that during updates and downloads. Apparently, some things never fully change...

i still have mine and i still used it

@user-pi5xz5je4y

6 жыл бұрын

Cool. What do you use it for?

@masterviper420

6 жыл бұрын

mp3's from laptops that dont have a cd rom and deststop wallpaper

Ahhhhh, today is a good day! Friday, LGR, my sandwich and my beer. Thanks man, a BIG shout out from Brazil!

@ShesSometimesDoubleChocolate.

6 жыл бұрын

Ha, wait until next Friday: the one just before Easter, and then you can call it a Good Friday officially! :-)

I find this video particularly interesting due to a song that mentions Iomega. In MF DOOM's "Who You Think I Am?", one verse King Geedorah Raps is "Memorize like I-Omega Zip Drive". I know its a small detail, but hearing the name of the brand in the video made me think, I heard this before! Where did I hear it? So, yeah. Awesome content, just wanted to share my small connection to it! Love your videos, keep 'em coming!

Clint! Drive

These look cool, we were using Zip disks at that time. They shouldn’t called it clik, it was infamous “click of death” also CF and SD memory cards were used in digital cameras and had faster loading times.

@CheapSushi

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, did you watch the video because he says the exact same thing.

@Markimark151

6 жыл бұрын

CheapSushi I know that, but he didn’t mention that flash memory cards and USB were just introduced to replace removable disk based storage. Memory sticks were getting cheaper, also Apple computers like iMacs couldn’t work with Iomega click disks.

I didn't know about this form of Iomega as well. Me and my buddies only drooled over the 100mb zips back in the day to xfer over old dos games and stupid txt files. Great video. Also that win 95 boot ahhhhh yeaaaaa..

'I just like loading Duke 3D off obsolete media' That quote sums up this channel pretty well.

this vid is clikbait 😉

@itsmemrnukki

6 жыл бұрын

Booooo!

@poopshipdestroy3r

6 жыл бұрын

Lol

@ThePiquedPigeon

6 жыл бұрын

rimshot.avi

@miracleeskimobattleship2874

6 жыл бұрын

i-see-what-you-did-there.jpg

@peteranderson037

6 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to give a KZread comment a thumbs up and a thumbs down simultaneously?