Subj : Re: All kinds of free stuff for your BBS
To   : Geri Atricks
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Apr 02 2023 07:03 am

-=> Geri Atricks wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 pF> Reminds me of the time when people bought those 5 1/4" CD changers in
 pF> order to make all of the files on multiple CDs available from their
 pF> BBSes. I always wanted one of those, TEAC made a cool half-height model
 pF> that crammed 6 disks into it.

 GA> Most of the systems around here that had multiple CD's like that just
 GA> set up a SCSI array of multiple CD drives. The multidisk changer would
 GA> have probably been a whole lot simpler, and use less power. :)

Man, I hateed SCSI! I worked at a Mac software company in the '90s, and
people loved to stack peripherals. You'd have a removable drive like a
Syquest, an external CD-ROM, an external drive, and maybe a tape drive.
Getting them all cabled and terminated was a bear. Some drives would
"want" to be on the end, and getting good quality cables and terminators
was important. More than once I'd need to change the order of drives
just to make it work.



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