TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Trekkie4]

About optical drives, I kinda liked how some manufacturers had damn cool faceplates on those instead of the typical, boring white/beige/black ones.

BTC drives in my opinion had "cool" looking faceplates. Something about the way they shaped it, and made those play & stop buttons shaped like small arrows

 

[Ruru]

I remember that my last CD-RW drive was a Philips CDRW5200, looks almost the same as its 4800 older brother:

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Though it didn't have the volume knob, headphone jack or two LED indicators. It was anyway hella reliable drive, IIRC it never failed to burn a disc (though I always burned CDs at 16x).

 

[Trekkie4]

I remember that my last CD-RW drive was a Philips CDRW5200, looks almost the same as its 4800 older brother:

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Though it didn't have the volume knob, headphone jack or two LED indicators. It was anyway hella reliable drive, IIRC it never failed to burn a disc (though I always burned CDs at 16x).

Not sure I like the contrast between the white face plate & darker (silver?) tray & eject button but otherwise I would have to agree, it does have a lot of character. Also, one of the very few units to feature separate LEDs for read & write functions.

 

[Ruru]

Not sure I like the contrast between the white face plate & darker (silver?) tray & eject button but otherwise I would have to agree, it does have a lot of character. Also, one of the very few units to feature separate LEDs for read & write functions.

Looked IMO pretty nice in a black case. Also that was a nice bundle on some drives that they had few other faceplates bundled with them back in the day to match a different coloured case.

 

[68Olds]

Found this lovely machine on a Facebook retro group. Beautifully put together.
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Those Creative drives bring back memories. The first CDROM I had was a Creative Multimedia kit, came with a controller board & the drive. It is still in the basement in my AT tower case & 486 mobo.
Had a lot of fun with the DOS games on CD back then.

 

[Trekkie4]

Those Creative drives bring back memories. The first CDROM I had was a Creative Multimedia kit, came with a controller board & the drive. It is still in the basement in my AT tower case & 486 mobo.
Had a lot of fun with the DOS games on CD back then.

I got one of those Creative units, myself... Although mine doesn't appear to be something special, in fact it may even be a later BTC drive manufactured by the "TOP-G" corporation.

 

[freeagent]

52x.. noice..

 

[Ruru]

I got one of those Creative units, myself... Although mine doesn't appear to be something special, in fact it may even be a later BTC drive manufactured by the "TOP-G" corporation.

Those drives were handy which had a headphone jack, a volume knob and that play/pause button

52x.. noice..

Noice noise, I remember that Liteon drives were like jets launching off

 

[freeagent]

And the cheaper CD's would explode

 

[Ruru]

And the cheaper CD's would explode

I heard those horror stories but luckily I didn't experience that one.. at 52x, the disc spins at 27500RPM!!!!

 

[flatty]

BTW, There exist somewhere a working copy of original Lemmings?

thanks

 

[Trekkie4]

And the cheaper CD's would explode

Back in 2005 or 2006, I had a brand new DVD-RW drive. The very first DVD-RW I ever had, and also the last BTC optical drive, because they disappeared from the scene soon after. This one, from the pic actually:


Anyway, what happened is that an old Traxdata CD blew up inside DVD-RW, causing terminal damage to the laser pickup, but also to the tray mechanism which literally opened up from the impact, with the shards of smashed CD flying out & onto the floor in front of the case.

I took the drive back to the store & somehow managed to get a replacement unit, blaming the actual BTC for what happened

 

[freeagent]

Yup, that happened to my buddy down the street.. having a beer, burning a game and that drive was just screaming and it made a pretty fantastic noise. I don't remember if the drive died or not. I want to say it continued to burn on a new disk but at a slower speed, but I don't recall. I think those were the days it took 4 hours to burn a dvd.. but its a little hazy.

 

[Trekkie4]

I forgot to ask & mention in particular... Due to the unexpected issues with one of the Adison systems, I'm on a lookout for Chaintech 6BTM Slot 1 motherboard. So if you happen to have one in working condition please drop me a msg & let me know. Depending on the asking price we might be able to work something out

 

[F-Zero]

Hey guys ! So I wanted to show you my good colleague's retro project he is working on. He is a true master of the craft and I hope you like it !
PS: He is the one who hooked me on DFI motherboards so thank you !

Specs are:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
DFI LANParty DK P45 T2RS
4x2 DDR 2 @ 800Mhz
Palit GT 240
Custom black/orange cables
Verbatim 120 Gb SSD
Custom case for display ( he wants to put it on the wall )

 

[Ruru]

Hey guys ! So I wanted to show you my good colleague's retro project he is working on. He is a true master of the craft and I hope you like it !
PS: He is the one who hooked me on DFI motherboards so thank you !

Specs are:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
DFI LANParty DK P45 T2RS
4x2 DDR 2 @ 800Mhz
Palit GT 240
Custom black/orange cables
Verbatim 120 Gb SSD
Custom case for display ( he wants to put it on the wall )
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Feels more than absurd to see such old hardware in a modern-looking build like that.

Time to crack a beer guys, CPU Galaxy has just posted a new video!

 

[lexluthermiester]

I got one of those Creative units, myself... Although mine doesn't appear to be something special, in fact it may even be a later BTC drive manufactured by the "TOP-G" corporation.

Zip250's, very nice.

Feels more than absurd to see such old hardware in a modern-looking build like that.

Time to crack a beer guys, CPU Galaxy has just posted a new video!

Cool!

 

[flatty]

I like the idea (a mixture of old and new, is even crossing my mind to hook an old radio and make a system in it) but i would "complete" the new look with a non-wooden inferior tray (black plexy maybe?).
anyway, nice job and fine work (watch the edges how well are done)

 

[Splinterdog]

Check out this cable management. (this is not my work)

 

[Trekkie4]

Check out this cable management. (this is not my work)
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Wow!! This guy is either a true genius ... or a maniac.

 

[framebuffer]

Check out this cable management. (this is not my work)
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Awesome work by Ricardo Daniel Costa, more pictures and specs are available on his ig/fb

 

[Ruru]

Damn @framebuffer you were faster to recommend a PCIe SATA controller to him, saw your comment after I posted the same.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Check out this cable management. (this is not my work)
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Oh, now that is just lovely.

 

[Ruru]

Check out this cable management. (this is not my work)
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Never even knew that cable management like that is possible with oldschool cases. More than impressed!

 

[framebuffer]

Damn @framebuffer you were faster to recommend a PCIe SATA controller to him, saw your comment after I posted the same.

heheh seemed the most obvious thing to try and nobody had mentioned it yet when I commented, but apparently Joe is keeping that as last resort, will see