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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by wslh on Saturday December 23, 2023 @04:58PM (#38748670)
I remember showing my grandfather a Commodore Amiga playing a Genesis song from a 3.5" floppy disk [1] and he just said: "yes, it is just recorded on the disk". I tried to explain the complexity (digital to analog processes) of this but he just abstracted the idea thinking in other media like LPs, Casettes, and the new CDs.

[1] https://youtu.be/_UnVy9w0xKk?si=kFwgo1qU6Dw9Y6sY

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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by Cockbrand on Saturday December 23, 2023 @05:50PM (#38749095)
Haha, I had a copy of that disk back in the day, but I certainly haven't thought of it in the last 30 years. Thank you for reminding me! While it was a bit of a marvel to put an entire pop song onto an 880k disk, the not-so-hifi sound quality was already apparent back then. I guess they forgot to switch off the low pass filter by turning off the power LED.
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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by wslh on Saturday December 23, 2023 @06:13PM (#38749249)
Thank you for teaching us abot the low pass filter! I searched that after your message since I was not aware: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.amiga.audio/c/6wBXmBoOI...
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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by Cockbrand on Sunday December 24, 2023 @05:47AM (#38752601)
On the other hand, I just learned from your link that there apparently were A500s where the low pass filter could not be switched off in software. AFAIR, toggling the LPF in software was already possible in the predecessor, the A1000.

Anyhow, coupling the LPF to the power LED (and having a software controlled power LED in the first place) is a very Amiga thing to do. It's one of the platform's many nice idiosyncrasies.

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Re:2TB microSD card is on the way early next year by snvzz on Sunday December 24, 2023 @07:54PM (#38758568)
Should have shown him a tracker :)
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