Old Floppy Drive Becomes New Turntable 329
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 The floppy drive is obsolete, but the turntable is not, and that got one guy to thinking.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 Modding Needed (Score:2, Funny)
Where its at! (Score:5, Funny)
nerdcore rules
What's even cooler (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Before anyone asks... (Score:5, Funny)
There is something beautiful about ... (Score:5, Funny)
LED??? (Score:5, Funny)
Ummm... wouldn't the turntable actually turning be a dead givaway???
That's amazing (Score:4, Funny)
Give this man a prize!
Re:There is something beautiful about ... (Score:3, Funny)
So, considering the converse problem - who will be first to boot from vinyl? Now that would be a cool hack... :-)
Re:What stylus? (Score:3, Funny)
Now we just need someone... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What about the stylus? (Score:3, Funny)
"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
Daniel
Re:Site /.ed, but... WTF?! (Score:4, Funny)
Just a minute... I have an email...
part 2 - turn your floppy drive into a webserver (Score:3, Funny)
Re:LED??? (Score:2, Funny)
Aha.. weren't expecting that were you!?
Well, I guess you were..
Re:Where its at! (Score:2, Funny)
But not quite as much as Beck
Wrong Way Around (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That would make one *terrible* turntable (Score:2, Funny)
Congratulations, you have now turned into an old woman. Please leave your balls at the nearest store.
YES!! (Score:3, Funny)
It'll play my 8-track tapes??
Oh
Re:That would make one *terrible* turntable (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What stylus? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I've made a 7 inch floppy disc turntable (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The patent finally expired, I guess. (Score:4, Funny)
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!