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Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by EVdotIO »

adamredwoods wrote: post #12

I had an Iomega Zip drive, too! So cool, but the higher capacities were too expensive and the parallel adapter didn't work everywhere. I forget if there were compatible discs, not made by Iomega, that were cheaper?

I don’t know about cheaper, but Fuji, HP and photography related companies made disks. Completely unrelated, but the SCSI versions made them pretty much plug and play with tons of hardware. There is an old Roland sampler I have made in ‘88 that uses one, and Zip disks leave floppies completely in the dust. It’s truly night and day on every level.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by Kadin »

adamredwoods wrote: post #12

I had an Iomega Zip drive, too! So cool, but the higher capacities were too expensive and the parallel adapter didn't work everywhere. I forget if there were compatible discs, not made by Iomega, that were cheaper?

Yes, Iomega eventually licensed disk production to a few other companies. I know for sure that Maxell and Verbatim made them, and Wikipedia says that Toshiba, Fuji, Epson and NEC also produced some.

When they were originally released, I believe the first model was SCSI-only and cost $199. Disks were $20 each and held 100MB. Eventually the price of disks dropped a bit, until they were around $11 or so in multipacks the last time I bought any.

They also had backwards compatible 250 and 750 MB drives, but I don't know how well they ever sold. I never saw either in person. I think by the time they hit the market CD-R drives and media had dropped in price so much that Zip disks weren't economical as either a backup or file-transfer media.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by [deleted] »

mrleinad wrote: post #26
gchucky wrote: post #13

There was an easter egg in Windows 95 for clouds.mid.[1] You had to create a folder and rename it a few times, and then it would play the song[2]. Even hearing it now takes me back to a simpler time... [1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69883/musical-easter-egg... [2] https://soundcloud.com/brianorr/clouds

I miss those good times when developers were given freedom to do things like these.

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Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by mikewave »

twoodfin wrote: post #7

“Object Packager”! I’d spend hours trying to figure out what you could do with a utility sporting such a cool name & icon. Did anyone ever use it for its mysterious but intended purpose?

IIRC - fuzzy old memories, but I think you could use it with OLE to combine a few different embedded OLE sources into one document, e.g. a Microsoft Draw vector piece and a Media Player MID into one component that could be embedded elsewhere.

Very useless. Most Win 3.1 machines with 1-4MB RAM could barely even start MS Draw without churning swap like they were trying to make butter....

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by FeepingCreature »

A few years ago I was playing with Karplus-Strong synthesis, and I decided to dump canyon.mid into it. Note that there's no drums, I just dumped every note into the synthesizer. Also I think there were some numeric bugs with my code.

I kind of like this version anyways though https://soundcloud.com/feepingcreature-1/canyonmid-on-a-brok...

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by _nickwhite »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #30
_nickwhite wrote: post #17

If I ever start my own company with a real phone system, I’m putting canyon.mid as the on hold music. How cool would that be?

"Please hold, your call is important to us!" ♪♪

Gen X-ers and Older Millennials will request to be put on hold again just to jam out to that Windows 3.1 nostalgia.
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