02-25-2022, 04:17 PM
decay wrote:
I'm intrigued about the video came case enclosures, how does that work?
They're spinning laptop drives inside, right? 5400 or 7200 I'd assume.
Yes; they're 2.5 platter-style HDDs inside, and I am fairly certain they are 5400 but do not recall.
I purchased from a gentleman on Etsy; basically he opens the game cart (he would say he tried to buy non-functional cartridges so as not to ruin working games), removes the innards, and replaces with a platter drive, which fits quite nicely. I've never taken them apart to see.
I tried to get him to try the same with flash drives and old Atari 2600 cartridges; he said he'd get back to me on that. Flash (with an extender cord) might work. Also the smaller SSD cards (am I thinking of the M.2?) might be a nice fit.
(Next up, isolinear cards a la Star Trek TNG. But I'd still like the floppy-sized "memory tape" cards that TOS used.)