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James Bentley

Ex Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer says 'SD cards are lame!' and opts to rescue a 200 lb 14-inch magnetic disc drive from the '80s with just 622 MB of storage

Dave Plummer's RA82 disk drive.

Even if you don't know the name 'Dave Plummer', you're certainly familiar with his work. This former Microsoft engineer is known for coding Pinball on Windows NT, as well as creating Task Manager. Well, today, he's a YouTuber and creator, and he's decided to fit his home with a whopping 200-pound 14-inch disc drive, which launched in Japan in 1982 and came to America in 1983. The forty-year-old tech may not store much, but it does have a loud sound. Wait, that's not a good thing?

In a video titled "SD Cards are LAME!", Plummer shows off his DEC RA82 disc drive. "You can feel it through the floor when it seeks hard" is what Plummer tells the camera, in what I can only assume is a bit of glee.

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