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| Thread ID: 141757 | 2016-02-19 03:57:00 | Old CDs, floppies - what have you done with them? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1416214 | 2016-02-23 00:24:00 | I bought my first writer for about $600 which seemed cheap as the first models were thousands. Then you had to take great pains to avoid buffer under-run problems or you would waste a disk. I remember setting up a CD reader and writer on 2 different IDE channels and doing disk-to disk copies on the fly being a major achievement, and you couldn't touch the PC while doing it or the process would fail. These days I'd toss a disk without a 2nd thought and put DVD -writers in my builds just in case I might need it because they are only $40-$50. Apparently old DVD or CD disks strung on a string is a fairly good bird deterrent - at least until they get used to it. They can also be used as beer coasters. People probably come up with all sorts of novel uses for them. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1416215 | 2016-02-23 08:41:00 | Well my last DVD writer - with mt rainier support cost 10x less at about $60 about 8 or so years back. To think many of us probably spent hours ripping music CD's to mp3's, burning cCD's/DVD's, running trial software (winzip, ACD photo editor, FTP's, db power amp, html editors, mp3 converters, rippers, etc) creating piles of discs. Seems semi-old school tech today. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1416216 | 2016-02-23 10:16:00 | I eBayed a HP parallel port CDRW 2x speed. A friend bought a HP 4x from DSE. I had issues with coasters. Was surprised that I didn't have 1 non readable CD other than the CD that was too full and couldn't be closed. Including the cheap Melody Warehouse CDs. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1416217 | 2016-02-23 17:27:00 | ive been tossing together a computer out of a few old builds and some parts. happens to have an IDE connector. it might get 2 dvd burners and a rounded cable from trademe for $25. optical drives are definitely obsolete, of my baker's half dozen builds, only 2 have optical drives of of them being a until revently windows XP powered intel atom, one of those SFF boxes with the external PSU. tossed windows 10 on it and she makes a fine print server and music player. cd make fine Frisbee |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1416218 | 2016-02-27 08:18:00 | When I look at the hundreds of floppies that I bought it makes me cry. Especially as half of them never worked more than once. |
Digby (677) | ||
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