Subj : Re: Is a PC optical drive
To   : Cougar428
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Apr 27 2025 09:11 am

-=> Cougar428 wrote to NEOSHOCK <=-

Co>  I did buy a couple spares, but have never had to use them. I also back
Co>  it up with an HP 400/800MB tape drive and Colorado backup DOS - JIC.

And now I'm hearing the sound of a QIC drive hooked up to a floppy
controller.   Fwuuuuuuup.... Fwuuuuuuuup... long pause... fweeeeeeeep...
And so on, for hours. Damn, those things were slow.

I got lucky that my employer rapidly went from DDS to DDS-2, then DDS-2
to DDS-3, and I got the previous generation, along with a SCSI card.




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