Subj : Re: Night Owl
To   : Jas Hud
From : Glenn Rossi
Date : Wed Apr 13 2022 10:30 pm

On 4/13/2022 4:20 PM, Jas Hud wrote:
> |03Quoting message from |11T.J. Mcmillen |03to |11Kurt Weiske
> |03on |1113 Apr 22  16:27|03.
> 
> KW> We had a system at work with one of those CDROM changers - it was the size
> KW> of a 5 1/4" full-height drive and had a cartridge that took 5 disks. Oh, h
> KW> I wanted that back in the day...
> TM>
> TM> I had 2 of those, 2 hard drives and 4 panasonic cd-roms in my BBS tower in
> TM> hay day.  That was 4 discs online, plus the 2 4 disc changers, made 8 disc
> TM> online at once.
> TM>
> TM> Now that I just downloaded the images, I have 152 shareware CDs online at
> TM> times.  I wish I had this kinda space back in the 90s.
> TM>
> 
> 
> yeah but most of those cds were all junk and the same stuff over and over
> again. then they were filled with cruddy shareware.
> 
> ... Whips & chains?  Sorry, thats a hardware problem.
> 
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Imagine this monstrosity...  at one point I had a dual SCSI controller 
with 2 5-disc changers and 8 single drive CD-ROMs.  All external.  What 
a cabling nightmare.  Internally there were 2 IDE 500MB drives and 2 1GB 
SCSI drives.  I also had a pair of glacier-slow 2GB "tape-disk" drives.

Needless to say, free drive letters were scarce.

I had an IDE CD Changer that held 3 discs, but it was always jamming up.
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