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Today I retired my last working IDE device.
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Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
Yep. Today marks the death of the last working device I have that's not SATA. My 10 year old DVD burner finally had it. She just couldn't read anymore Cap'n. Rip old burner. You were good to me. This marks the end of IDE devices in my house. #resist |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65738 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Yep. Today marks the death of the last working device I have that's not SATA. My 10 year old DVD burner finally had it. I remember buying My 1st CD-rom drive and it predated ide, it wasn't scsi, it was some 34 pin proprietary interface, such things as long as their useful can last a long time if treated well, now You can join the sata revolution and take a gnu one out for a spin... ;) The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22190 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Dave's CD drive, may you spin in peace in that great server in the sky SIP Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
RIP to Ex's IDE. My old P4 still has the original DVD reader and A CD RW in it. That the only two IDE.s I have left. [/quote] Old James |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
Dave's CD drive, may you spin in peace in that great server in the sky ROFL :-) @Jim, my dead DVD drive was originally in a P4 system as well. #resist |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65738 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
I've got an old ide DVD-rom drive in black, the things aren't worth anything after SATAn got here. ;) The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
John Clark Send message Joined: 29 Sep 99 Posts: 16515 Credit: 4,418,829 RAC: 0 |
My 10 year old dual P4 based Xeon (Prestonia) still has it's CD ROM working. I think that is IDE ... It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65738 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
My 10 year old dual P4 based Xeon (Prestonia) still has it's CD ROM working. I think that is IDE ... If the drive has a ribbon cable then the drive should be an ide drive. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
soft^spirit Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6497 Credit: 34,134,168 RAC: 0 |
original CD-roms were 2X/4x(5.25") floppy speed. Simply amazing. At the time. And yes the originals plugged right into the floppy drive cable. There were SCSI models available as well. Janice |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65738 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
And I was using them in the early 90's too... The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
original CD-roms were 2X/4x(5.25") floppy speed. Many of the early ones used a carrier that you inserted the CD into that you then inserted into the drive. I retired my last one of those only about 2 years ago. BOINC WIKI |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
original CD-roms were 2X/4x(5.25") floppy speed. Oh wow, I remember those. Yep, put the disk in a cartridge, and then into the drive. Those were the first CD-ROMs I ever saw, and I was just but a boy. #resist |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65738 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
original CD-roms were 2X/4x(5.25") floppy speed. Those were the days, games still for the most part came on a bunch of 3.5" floppy discs, ide started to change all that... The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
original CD-roms were 2X/4x(5.25") floppy speed. We had the Windows 95 Beta Floppy set delivered once a fortnight. Something like 40 floppies to flip through the drives... BOINC WIKI |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65738 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
original CD-roms were 2X/4x(5.25") floppy speed. I'm sure glad that 95 that I had wasn't beta then. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
original CD-roms were 2X/4x(5.25") floppy speed. It could also be delivered on CD. We just could not get a CD player to work in one of the test rigs... BOINC WIKI |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
Windows 3.x was only 6 floppies or so. I cannot imagine installing win95 from floppy wow. That had to be fun, and slow. #resist |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65738 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Windows 3.x was only 6 floppies or so. I cannot imagine installing win95 from floppy wow. That had to be fun, and slow. Torture... The old floppy shuffle, glad We can use CD/DVDs now. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
Back when I had my first computer, My sister in law let me install some graphic program I needed, It came with 11 floppy discs. What a pain that was. [/quote] Old James |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Windows 3.x was only 6 floppies or so. I cannot imagine installing win95 from floppy wow. That had to be fun, and slow. I think you'll find that it was 8 (9 if you included the MS Dos disk]. |
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