Don't you EVER say that! The number of pizzas I had to order to get the modules for my CD rack. But it's still up there, looking good and holding incredibly useful CDs I made of highly-useful stuff I could never live without.
@@user-pi5xz5je4y Surprisingly few have failed! Good brands have survived much better than cheapos, but still... Having said that, my ancient cassettes still work fine.
When you first tried to get a disk and all of them came out I started laughing because it reminded me of the Simpsons " The Fingers You Have Used To Dial Are Too Fat" thing 😂
The name "disk pic" - as in pictures on a vinyl (!) disk - dates back to the 1970s, when RCA was starting down the road that led to the CED and their destruction.
Watching you fumble with this made me think I was watching a commercial for a different disk storage solution. "Spring loaded containers are a PAIN! Who wants to mess with THIS? Now introducing..."
I could swear there was a fancier version of this that was motorized and came with tagging and cataloguing software to keep track of who you lent discs out to.
Dunno about floppies, but i have seen a CD library that was attached via serial. no CDROM hardware though, just a motorized holder controlled by a library program on the computer to pop the right CD on demand.
I remember having one of those, it was actually pretty neat ! But you had to remember where you disk were and also stick it to your desk because the box was always sliding when pressed, i remember making some kind of plate it put beside with labels aligned with each slots to know where it was, and also remembering that i was sometimes sloppy and mixing them up ahahah, so much nostalgia
Kinda related, kinda not, but I remember watching Pokemon videos as a kid with my cousin and I accidentally said "Dubious Dick" instead of "Dubious Disc", and he laughed his head off. :P So I can kinda see myself mixing up with the "Disk Pick"
I had something like that for NES games in the mid 2000s, though it was missing the front door because I found it at a pawn shop. Worked pretty well, could hold the cartridges and the plastic cartridge sleeves.
Wow, brings back a lot of memories of these type of storage solutions I would find in the software/computer stores all around my area. Don't know how many still exist like this, but I remember a ton of different styles of storage like this for all types of clunky media. Thanks for the quick blerb.
For some reason I'm reminded of an incident years ago when I walked into a video store. As I pulled the door open, a gust of wind blew just right and an entire wall of DVD cases went crashing to the floor. It was awesome. The next time I went there, there was string stretched across, securing all the cases.
Went to my computer science teacher's house once, he got a stack of game disks stored in stacks of cases like these. As a geeky midschooler, its a thing of magic. I do the same today with my cd, dvd, and blue ray discs stacked in a wooden cabinet made for dvds and blue rays. Something in organized media displays that made my living room pop out.
I remember having one of these. I also remember having hundreds of floppy disks. I don't recall ever throwing any away yet I only have a handful left. It's a possibility that some were broken from seeing how far they could be launched from my Disk Pick.
Honestly, the world was a much more innocent place back then... there are loads of examples of genuinely face-palm product names from this time and earlier. Also how common were DPs in the 80s and 90s? Were they sent via fax? Or in the mail?
Why am I getting this weird nostalgia for old fashioned desktop computer products that almost barely meet minimum expectations and leave you somewhere between disappointed and still wanting to get use out of it? Like, this video is almost the exact cycle of half the junk I used to buy for my PC because I thought it'd be convenient at the time.
@@yellowblanka6058 - you do realize there are quite a few things that must also be counted : 1. research costs 2. employee costs. 3. building rent costs. 4. marketing costs 5. distributing costs 6. other costs. that's why we can't look at stuff just by the cost to produce that item.
@@DMDMDM7 Of course, lol, but we're not talking about a new piece of computer hardware - this is a plastic mold with some springs inside, I'm fairly certain the R&D costs were minimal and involved measuring an 3.5 disk and finding the cheapest source for the springs.
Came for the "unsolicited disk-pick" jokes, but really love that wooden cd holder - such a cool mechanism. I'm a fan of old-style solutions to modern technology needs.
My dad had those ones that were angled and you could open the lid like a clamshell and then flip through the disks like file folders. Damn we had so many of those things...
I vaguely remember using a similar, smaller sized system (maybe the size of the floppy storage box you used to buy those things in?) that was equally clunky and shooting out multiple disks at the time when you tried to pick just one. Must have been the same mechanics.
I used to have a beige plastic insert for a 5.25" drive bay (to match the beige plastic front of just about all PCs back then) that held 3 CDs in jewel cases. It was actually pretty handy back in the glory days of CD-ROM reference discs.
Back in the floppy disk days, I used a piece of shareware that would read the contents of your floppies when inserted into the computer and then print out a nice label with the entire contents of the disc in very small print on the front and the name of the disc in tiny letters on the spine. I then stored the disks in a steel filing cabinet originally made for index cards with the name of each disc showing. It was still almost impossible to find what I wanted since floppies hold so little LOL!
I knew a few people that had these and had all their games and office software on them, this was right before cd-rom was the standard for all pc games, so you had games that came easily on multiples diskettes. We use to pull a prank called "getting picked" with the guys that had these things in their home office, when they weren't looking, we would pop out all their floppies and just make it look like it happened on it's own. One guy had 9 of these disk-picks in a 3x3 arrangement next to his IBM PC, all full too hehe
Memories of high school. I used to have a Macintosh 512kE that I used in high school (early 90's), and had 3 of these for storing my floppies. It was great since the Mac 512k didn't support a hard drive (easily) I had all of my disks handy and easy to access since I had to swap them (often!).
I remember these! I had one for CD-Roms too, not like your wooden one; it was more similar to the plastic disk-pick and had transparent black front cover
I remember having a system for my cassette tapes back in the 90s. You could even stack them to build the big Tower of Tapes, I had much fun ejecting the tapes.
Looks pretty cool to me. If you are able to keep a specific floppy in the same spot, you would not have to hunt around alot if all of your floppies look the same (as mine did in the 90's). WHen we first got a computer in 96, my uncle gave us a bunch of floppies that all looked the same, except the lable had a number. But beyond that, all the same. This would be cool for that kind of operation.
They all pop out when you try to pick one... so let's add more! And now it's like whack-a-mole. I think we all sort of love these weird accessory gadgets for computers or handhelds like the GB or DS, you don't need them, they don't work very well, but it's just neat to see and have for some reason.
The springs could stand to be a little less springy. The retention mechanism could also have stand a little more thought put into it but that would had driven up manufacturing costs. I feel like at some point there was going to be a roller pin system of some kind or maybe levers overcome by spring tension once engaged but they seem to had omitted that.
Oooh, I've got two of those (or rather, that style) for CDs that I've had for decades now. Dang plastic springs are broken on a few of the slots, but I still consider them a pretty good way to organize my physical music, especially cause taking one of those modules out of my shelves makes dusting much more easy than having to move a metric ton of jewel cases, making a tower on any free table and hoping it doesn't topple over xD For diskettes I guess it's a little suboptimal, at least with jewel cases you have some room to write stuff on the spine, but I can still see a use for it.
I have CD rack's like that. They are wood on the outside (chipboard painted black) with plastic collumns making up the slots the same way as this Disk-Pick has slots. Each rack has four collumns of 15 slots for a total of 60, some with 13 per collumn and a large gap at the botom for fat cased doubles. These were commonly available at K-Mart (Australia) from roughly 1995 to 2011. I bought 13 of them from an eBay seller a few years ago as I wanted some and K-Mart no longer sell them. Unfortunately the plastic collumns that make up the slots are all starting to warp.
Okay, I grew up in Somerville (Well, our mailing address was Somerville; We were actually in Hillsborough) and I'm trying to figure out where the hell Meister Avenue was... had to be on the outskirts somewhere.
"Can you imagine having a whole wall of these?" I'm imaging having two or three of those flip-top disk drawer things that are so much more space efficient and less frustrating to use...
First the Volcano game made right up the road from me, now this from a company about 30 minutes away. I'd didnt realize Central Jersey was a hit bed of weird 90s tech. Looking up GP Technologies it looks like they made something called Wheel Ease which would be perfect for a Blerb
eBay seller: "What?! Some bozo actually bought that thing?"
Wonder if it's related to Schaeffer's deck sealant..?
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Accurate cause of the Heart
I think this may have been one of the only every sold...
The guy who originally sold it to the guy who sold it on eBay: "haha what a bozo"
What better way to start my morning than with an unsolicited disk pick.
Just remember the S. 😊
Whats better is that you can use your tower of disk picks to store your collection of d*ck pics ..
The problem with the disk pick is it has your disks shooting out all over the place.
Came here to post that, saw that it was, I ain't even mad.
@@CaveyMoth Such are the dangers of a spring-loaded floppy.
The Disk Pic, now available on LGR onlyfans
NOOOOOOOOOO
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS lol jk
That site is toxicity at its finest. Who pays for porn when there's literally trillions of hours free.
@@Mattchu.the.Pikachu psychology and shit dude
I feel old now. CD holders are now part of the antique fraternity
Don't you EVER say that! The number of pizzas I had to order to get the modules for my CD rack. But it's still up there, looking good and holding incredibly useful CDs I made of highly-useful stuff I could never live without.
@@Ndlanding Hahaha!
@@Ndlanding How's the disc rot situation?
@@user-pi5xz5je4y Surprisingly few have failed! Good brands have survived much better than cheapos, but still...
Having said that, my ancient cassettes still work fine.
@@Ndlanding I've found that Verbatim CD-Rs have held up better than others.
LGR 2020: "This Disk Pick is not wood"
Well yeah, they're floppies.
LGR later 2020: "This Disk pick now looks like wood because wood tape!"
Okay now I really want to know what's on the "Unscrupulous Nonsense" disk.
Yea with a name like that, its gotta be the good stuff
It's just a copy of Clint re-voicing DN3D. 🤣
Nonsense of course
@@joshm264 I wonder if its 1.44 megabytes of a garbage file.
It's a handful of small, highly compressed .JPGs of the Disk Pick itself.
The only time I'd like to receive an unsolicited disk pick.
When you first tried to get a disk and all of them came out I started laughing because it reminded me of the Simpsons " The Fingers You Have Used To Dial Are Too Fat" thing 😂
Argh. You beat me to it!
Reminded me of "Whack-a-Mole" on Sam 'n' Max.
Me too! Maybe if he obtained a special dialing wand...
The 90s spit out the wackiest names.
The name "disk pic" - as in pictures on a vinyl (!) disk - dates back to the 1970s, when RCA was starting down the road that led to the CED and their destruction.
I think the 80’s had a fish deboner called wunder boner
I don't really think there was anything wrong with the name, it's only time that's made it sound like a bad choice.
2000's swallow
I wanna hear the outtakes for this
This so much haha
I agree! He can fill the end with bloopers to fill out the 10 minute mark. A win-win!
We need an LGR Blerbs Blerbs channel for those!!
Imagine a whole wall of these, all stocked with the front covers open, then..... an earthquake!
Ah yes, the Disk Avalanche...
Disks going balistic chopping your body into neat slices
@@3dlabs99 or neat sectors.
@@TheWeepingCorpse Death by Scandisk?
Ooooh
I've just spend 6 minutes watching another man's Disk Picks... I am not quite sure how to feel about that ....
me to now I feel like mounting my disk pick
they where floppy disk's too haha
I salute you
@@sam64evo
They're called floppy, but they feel so hard.
I knew i'd find this joke in de comments. :)
Nothing makes me feel older than "I found this CD rack in an antiques store."
Watching you fumble with this made me think I was watching a commercial for a different disk storage solution.
"Spring loaded containers are a PAIN! Who wants to mess with THIS? Now introducing..."
ruclips.net/video/qM4zMofsI7w/видео.html
I enjoyed looking at your disk pick
I could swear there was a fancier version of this that was motorized and came with tagging and cataloguing software to keep track of who you lent discs out to.
Dunno about floppies, but i have seen a CD library that was attached via serial. no CDROM hardware though, just a motorized holder controlled by a library program on the computer to pop the right CD on demand.
Yea that’s called a Redbox lol
i had one. It was called the Datasafe. Could hold 140 CDs/DVDs. Had a USB port and catalogue software.
@@simontay4851 "Had one"? How could you have got rid of it?
@@Ndlanding Only explanation I have for such a valuable item is it disappeared from existence. It was of too much value to remain in the hands of man
"Would you like a Disk Pick?"
"Only if you've got wood".
Imagine getting a wood grain disk pick from Clint at 3 o clock in the morning
I remember having one of those, it was actually pretty neat ! But you had to remember where you disk were and also stick it to your desk because the box was always sliding when pressed, i remember making some kind of plate it put beside with labels aligned with each slots to know where it was, and also remembering that i was sometimes sloppy and mixing them up ahahah, so much nostalgia
You ask for one disk and you get a load. This thing gives out unsolicited disk.... picks.
Love these 80s and 90s accessory videos. When can we expect a new catalogue video ?
Doing a review like this I would be so caught up in "don't mix up the words, don't mix up the words..." so hard. So many ways it could go wrong.
I'd be so caught up in "don't mix up the words" that I'd end up mixing them up…
Are you saying his floppies would be hard?
Yeah. Disk picks. We all know what that could have lead to.
Kinda related, kinda not, but I remember watching Pokemon videos as a kid with my cousin and I accidentally said "Dubious Dick" instead of "Dubious Disc", and he laughed his head off. :P
So I can kinda see myself mixing up with the "Disk Pick"
I remember these! I had an arrangement akin to a library card catalog. Man, I had long forgotten about that. Thanks for the memory.
Back in the day I just kept my disk in my pants.
Jokes aside, I have a couple similar storage towers for Game Boy games. Kinda handy.
What was that old saying? If you can't keep your disk in your pants, keep it in the caddy?
So, was it floppy or hard?
I had something like that for NES games in the mid 2000s, though it was missing the front door because I found it at a pawn shop. Worked pretty well, could hold the cartridges and the plastic cartridge sleeves.
@@harrkev Don't be silly, nobody keeps a hard disk in their pants.
@@user-pi5xz5je4y Are we forgetting optical disks? You need a laser to read them.
This looks fantastically well design.
The way the front cover hides in the top bit like a garage door... very nice find!
The fact that every time you touched it you ended up with a bunch of unwanted disk picks seems... appropriate.
This is the type of quality content I subscribed for
Indeed.
LGR Disk Picks, something you didn't know you wanted until it popped up on your feed.
Something you never knew you didn't want to see.
Wow, brings back a lot of memories of these type of storage solutions I would find in the software/computer stores all around my area. Don't know how many still exist like this, but I remember a ton of different styles of storage like this for all types of clunky media. Thanks for the quick blerb.
I really hate that we got rid of all of our classic media/games storage T_T
i really hate the environment too
the thought that a CD holder was mistaken for an antique is hilarious to me
For some reason I'm reminded of an incident years ago when I walked into a video store. As I pulled the door open, a gust of wind blew just right and an entire wall of DVD cases went crashing to the floor. It was awesome. The next time I went there, there was string stretched across, securing all the cases.
Thank you Clint for igniting my love for old tech and especially old computer doodads. Keep up the great work sir.
Can't belive you posted your disk picks to RUclips
I have a tape holder that matches your CD hold of you want it.
I might be of Clint isnt :)
Gimme gimme gimme...please 😁
you like tapes and CD's?
A tape holder? So, a... stick pick?
@@MoparMuscle1970 CDs nuts in your face.
Looks like something my parents had with their first computer, Compaq Presario 1996.
Why do I feel like everyone had a Presario
@@devinarato69420 Probably for the same reason everyone had a ThinkPad in the mid 2000s
Aidan Chappelle yeah, and probably a little negativity bias from me
Clint, thank you for sharing your disk pick with us.
Thanks for sharing your disk pick with us, Clint!
Went to my computer science teacher's house once, he got a stack of game disks stored in stacks of cases like these. As a geeky midschooler, its a thing of magic. I do the same today with my cd, dvd, and blue ray discs stacked in a wooden cabinet made for dvds and blue rays. Something in organized media displays that made my living room pop out.
This was a great video - no matter the length, you always make me feel happy from listening to nya~
Thanks for the unsolicited Disk Pick, LGR
What a great disk pick. I bet everything fits in just perfectly :)
Reminds me of one of the CED's prototype name: DiscPix
Technology Connections fan? :-)
@@hugovangalen guilty as charged
In the 80's and 90's it was very popular to send Disk Picks to random women through the mail.
AOL was notorious for this! 😁
Picturing a de-evolution montage a la Idiocracy.
"Omg why is her floppy bigger than mine?!" 😂
@@deanster3435 these days you never know
@@googaagoogaa12345678 Ain't that the truth
I never thought I'd see LGR's disk picks
"It's weird when there's multiple disks in there". That's what she said..
"Oh no they're all coming out when you press one of them"
The 12 year old me is dying of laughter.
The adult me is also dying of laughter.
Oh, wow. I had several of these back in the day. I've lost track of the number of things I've forgotten about having that LGR has reminded me of.
Nothing more satisfying them watching a grown man play with his disk pick
This is the best video of disk picks I've seen. And I've seen many disk picks before. 👀
Oh I remember floppy containers kinda like this. Such a buried memory, born in 92 they were on the way out.
You should build a wooden frame around it and then mount it
or slap on some woodgrain vinyl wrap
... or build a wooden frame around it and burn it
I remember having one of these. I also remember having hundreds of floppy disks. I don't recall ever throwing any away yet I only have a handful left. It's a possibility that some were broken from seeing how far they could be launched from my Disk Pick.
I...REALLY want that teak CD holder for some of my old games. That thing is beautiful.
WHAT!? I didn't know you have a second channel. Now I have new stuff to watch again from you :)
Those guys knew EXACTLY what they were doing naming it that....
Honestly, the world was a much more innocent place back then... there are loads of examples of genuinely face-palm product names from this time and earlier. Also how common were DPs in the 80s and 90s? Were they sent via fax? Or in the mail?
Oh I wish I had one of those back in the 90s! All my floppies were just all over the place all the time
Why am I getting this weird nostalgia for old fashioned desktop computer products that almost barely meet minimum expectations and leave you somewhere between disappointed and still wanting to get use out of it? Like, this video is almost the exact cycle of half the junk I used to buy for my PC because I thought it'd be convenient at the time.
What kind of psychotic price is $8.62?
An American price... it probably came to something normal like $8.99 with the local sales tax.
Thing probably cost 50 cents (if that) to manufacture at the time.
@@yellowblanka6058 - you do realize there are quite a few things that must also be counted :
1. research costs
2. employee costs.
3. building rent costs.
4. marketing costs
5. distributing costs
6. other costs.
that's why we can't look at stuff just by the cost to produce that item.
@@DMDMDM7 Of course, lol, but we're not talking about a new piece of computer hardware - this is a plastic mold with some springs inside, I'm fairly certain the R&D costs were minimal and involved measuring an 3.5 disk and finding the cheapest source for the springs.
@@DMDMDM7 when people say " it cost 50c to produce" they usually include all the costs you mention.
"It's not quite the same. It's probably different"
Clint LGR - 2020.
Came for the "unsolicited disk-pick" jokes, but really love that wooden cd holder - such a cool mechanism. I'm a fan of old-style solutions to modern technology needs.
My dad had those ones that were angled and you could open the lid like a clamshell and then flip through the disks like file folders. Damn we had so many of those things...
What the hell was that lol? Watching a man repeatedly prod his floppy until it pops out - usually unexpectedly.
p o k e
p o k e
p o k e
p o k e
p o k e
*click*
Woohoo! Floppy drives are fun.
I once sent a Disk pic to the wrong phone number 😂
That CD holder is the highlight of the video for me. I need something like that.
I vaguely remember using a similar, smaller sized system (maybe the size of the floppy storage box you used to buy those things in?) that was equally clunky and shooting out multiple disks at the time when you tried to pick just one. Must have been the same mechanics.
I was going through my dad's old diskettes and he has at least 5 of these amazing things
I used to have a beige plastic insert for a 5.25" drive bay (to match the beige plastic front of just about all PCs back then) that held 3 CDs in jewel cases. It was actually pretty handy back in the glory days of CD-ROM reference discs.
man, I love your blerbs. you're the quintessential kernel of youtube, please don't die before me ;)
Back in the floppy disk days, I used a piece of shareware that would read the contents of your floppies when inserted into the computer and then print out a nice label with the entire contents of the disc in very small print on the front and the name of the disc in tiny letters on the spine. I then stored the disks in a steel filing cabinet originally made for index cards with the name of each disc showing. It was still almost impossible to find what I wanted since floppies hold so little LOL!
I knew a few people that had these and had all their games and office software on them, this was right before cd-rom was the standard for all pc games, so you had games that came easily on multiples diskettes. We use to pull a prank called "getting picked" with the guys that had these things in their home office, when they weren't looking, we would pop out all their floppies and just make it look like it happened on it's own. One guy had 9 of these disk-picks in a 3x3 arrangement next to his IBM PC, all full too hehe
I had six of those, they were AWESOME for transporting disks inside a cardboard box.
I do love looking at those disk pics.
I had one of those! Mom found it at a goodwill. I put some of my remaining DOS boot disks in it.
Never thought I would see you post unsolicited disk picks
Love the teak CD holder. Great find!
That joy didn't last long lol
I literally burst laughing when multiple disks came out unintentionally
Memories of high school. I used to have a Macintosh 512kE that I used in high school (early 90's), and had 3 of these for storing my floppies. It was great since the Mac 512k didn't support a hard drive (easily) I had all of my disks handy and easy to access since I had to swap them (often!).
I remember these! I had one for CD-Roms too, not like your wooden one; it was more similar to the plastic disk-pick and had transparent black front cover
This might the very best LGR video yet!
I remember having a system for my cassette tapes back in the 90s. You could even stack them to build the big Tower of Tapes, I had much fun ejecting the tapes.
Looks pretty cool to me. If you are able to keep a specific floppy in the same spot, you would not have to hunt around alot if all of your floppies look the same (as mine did in the 90's). WHen we first got a computer in 96, my uncle gave us a bunch of floppies that all looked the same, except the lable had a number. But beyond that, all the same. This would be cool for that kind of operation.
I can imagine having a whole wall of those. As soon as someone leaves your computer lab and slams the door, all the disks will fly out!
They all pop out when you try to pick one... so let's add more!
And now it's like whack-a-mole.
I think we all sort of love these weird accessory gadgets for computers or handhelds like the GB or DS, you don't need them, they don't work very well, but it's just neat to see and have for some reason.
I found that exact CD holder at a church rummage sale a few years ago. Thought it was so cool.
Never thought I'd want to see a 3.5 in floppy disk pick.
I imagine a 3d printed one with a bit more spacing between disks would work pretty well
I had one of these in the 90's!
This is strangely nostalgic. I'm like 80% sure we used to own at least one of these things.
I love that this was uploaded!
The springs could stand to be a little less springy. The retention mechanism could also have stand a little more thought put into it but that would had driven up manufacturing costs. I feel like at some point there was going to be a roller pin system of some kind or maybe levers overcome by spring tension once engaged but they seem to had omitted that.
Oooh, I've got two of those (or rather, that style) for CDs that I've had for decades now. Dang plastic springs are broken on a few of the slots, but I still consider them a pretty good way to organize my physical music, especially cause taking one of those modules out of my shelves makes dusting much more easy than having to move a metric ton of jewel cases, making a tower on any free table and hoping it doesn't topple over xD For diskettes I guess it's a little suboptimal, at least with jewel cases you have some room to write stuff on the spine, but I can still see a use for it.
That CD holder is so neat!!
I remember these! I had two with different company logos on them thrown in as freebies with mail order shipments.
I have CD rack's like that. They are wood on the outside (chipboard painted black) with plastic collumns making up the slots the same way as this Disk-Pick has slots. Each rack has four collumns of 15 slots for a total of 60, some with 13 per collumn and a large gap at the botom for fat cased doubles. These were commonly available at K-Mart (Australia) from roughly 1995 to 2011. I bought 13 of them from an eBay seller a few years ago as I wanted some and K-Mart no longer sell them. Unfortunately the plastic collumns that make up the slots are all starting to warp.
You had me in stitches 😂 Great vid man
You know, I had a bit of an evil laugh when I saw the mechanism... I had tears rolling down my cheeks by the end 😆😆😆
Interesting. I would love to see a video about various disk storage and organization devices.
1:44 "This di*k-pi*k is obviously not wood."
Okay, I grew up in Somerville (Well, our mailing address was Somerville; We were actually in Hillsborough) and I'm trying to figure out where the hell Meister Avenue was... had to be on the outskirts somewhere.
I had one of those.
Also one for cassette tapes, which was holding cassettes from all 4 sides and could be turned.
"Can you imagine having a whole wall of these?"
I'm imaging having two or three of those flip-top disk drawer things that are so much more space efficient and less frustrating to use...
First the Volcano game made right up the road from me, now this from a company about 30 minutes away. I'd didnt realize Central Jersey was a hit bed of weird 90s tech. Looking up GP Technologies it looks like they made something called Wheel Ease which would be perfect for a Blerb