Retsy Series 1 · Card 0013 · 80-CND

Byte-Size Drops

Load flavor. Press any key.

Square fruit hard candies packed in a flat tin shaped exactly like a home computer floppy disk.

Card no.: 0013 of 1,280
Set: 80s Candy · 80-CND
Year: 1984
Type: Hard candies in a floppy tin
Found at: Electronics store register
Cost back then: $1.25 a tin

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Nostalgia7/10

Hype6/10

Weirdness7/10

Trade value7/10

The story · 1984

The story of Byte-Size Drops

Byte-Size Drops showed up right when families were getting their first home computers. The tin slid into a paper sleeve just like a real disk, and each candy was a tiny square with a pixel pattern pressed on top. Kids hid them in the computer lab disk box, and at least one teacher tried to load one into a drive.

Fun fact

The wrapper claimed each tin held 64 kilobytes of flavor, which nobody understood and everybody repeated.

Six finishes

187 copies of Byte-Size Drops exist

Byte-Size Drops comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.

Byte-Size Drops, Retsy card 0013 in the Base finish — **Base**100 copies · Common

Byte-Size Drops, Retsy card 0013 in the Holo finish — **Holo**50 copies · Uncommon

Byte-Size Drops, Retsy card 0013 in the Laser finish — **Laser**25 copies · Rare

Byte-Size Drops, Retsy card 0013 in the Gold finish — **Gold**10 copies · Very rare

Byte-Size Drops, Retsy card 0013 in the Super Laser finish — **Super Laser**1 copy · 1 of 1

Byte-Size Drops, Retsy card 0013 in the Misprint finish — **Misprint**1 copy · 1 of 1

80-CND

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