Old home computers with integrated cassette players for data storage.
Or boomboxes with floppy disk drives for music play.
What do you think of the Sony Mavica? Camera that takes 3.5 inch floppies
Fuck, I forgot about that!
But let me counter with vinyl disks used for video playback!
I had one of those VideoDisc systems for a hot minute… Bought it second-hand, unfortunately it never worked so I took it back. If you want to see more of this kind of weirdness, check out Techmoan’s Retro Tech series on YouTube.
Incidentally, that “boombox” was just a slightly larger than average personal stereo rather than the ubiquitous on-the-shoulder hi-fi normally associated with the nickname, and the music it plays off the floppies is held in MIDI files!
Allow me to add a laptop with a VCR in it
That one is fake sadly.
However, since we’re on the subject of laptops, let me show you
The awesome mechanical marvel that is the butterfly keyboard of the IBM ThinkPad 701C.
