29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
6:52 a.m.
Eric Dittman wrote:
I actually have one of these (with controller) sitting on my shelf right
now. These things are NOT bootable, and you have to be careful
about closing it properly (or it doesn't always recognize it's shut).
It's intresting, but not one that I want to have to use much any more.
Pulled it out of a machine that I was trying to re-install
Windows98 on. It was just too painful trying to get a bootable system
with the proper drivers, and then get the win98 installer running,
while keeping the driver working, just to use a 1X cd-rom
drive. Win98 just seemed to want to forget about the drivers
after one of the numerous reboots, and then blaimed me when it
couldn't find the drive anymore.
Replaced with a regular IDE cdrom instead of fighting it for
several more hours, and the install went Ok.
I do have the DOS drivers for it though, and Linux seems to think
it's Ok once you get it installed.
<e-bay mode on>
;-) I'll sell this leet, rare, vintage, historically important (and all
those other e-bay wonderment words) device to you for the
astonishing low e-bay price of $5000.00, or swap for something
intresting or useful (like a set of tamper proof tools) ;=)
<e-bay mode off>
IIRC, the first
CD-ROM drive that Radio Shack carried was a relabeled
Mitsumi trasport loader (a top loading drive that slid most of the drive
in and out of a holder to get access to it) It was hailed as a major
breakthrough in price reduction.
I had one of those drives, but I didn't purchase it at Radio
Shack. The drive was about 0.7X, I think, but it was a lot
less expensive than any other drive that was available at the
time.