6 Feb
2007
6 Feb
'07
8:22 p.m.
On 2/6/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 6 Feb 2007 at 19:09, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
My Denon is about 14 years old. Doing good too.
In the my office, I've got a Sony CDP-102 (sticker on the back says
April, 1985) sitting on top of a Sansui 2000A receiver with a couple
of Dyna A25 speakers. Other than having to replace some pilot lamps
in the Sansui, all of it's the way it came out of the box new. The
Sony's a little finicky on CD-Rs, but otherwise works just fine. The
Sansui was picked up at Toad Hall in Chicago in the late 60's.
Cheers,
Chuck
My family has a Dell XPS T500 which shipped with a DVD-ROM drive and a CD-RW
drive...(came with 98...was around 1998...yep they're that behind in
technology :P)...the DVD-ROM drive was naturally the main drive until about
3 years of us having the Dell (2001) the drive has stopped reading
discs...indeed it does seem that the diode in dvd-rom drives has a much
shorter life span then regular cd-rom drives or even cd-rw drives (we now
use the cd-rw drive as the main drive and for cd burning as it's still
working great)
> > Somewhat related, I am also somewhat
amazed by my old Sony CD player
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now pushing 18 years of age, and still going strong.
I still have my first-ever audio CD player (and it's still plugged in
and hooked up), well over 20 years old (22? 23?) If it doesn't work
now as well as it did then, I can't tell the difference.