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  • Re: All kinds of free stuff for your BBS

    From Geri Atricks@21:4/102 to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, March 06, 2023 22:57:56
    Reminds me of the time when people bought those 5 1/4" CD changers in order to make all of the files on multiple CDs available from their
    BBSes. I always wanted one of those, TEAC made a cool half-height model that crammed 6 disks into it.

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

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Geri Atricks on Sunday, April 02, 2023 07:03:00
    Geri Atricks wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

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

    Most of the systems around here that had multiple CD's like that just
    set up a SCSI array of multiple CD drives. The multidisk changer would 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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  • From esc@21:4/173 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, April 02, 2023 22:47:02
    Man, I hateed SCSI! I worked at a Mac software company in the '90s, and

    I still hate SCSI :P and unfortunately so many old computers used it, so we have to use these jank adapters. My Amigas are the worst, I have all these scsi->CF adapters and things like that which always have their own problems. It's just a mess.

    Yeah, they have straight up IDE adapters that you can use, but the performance is garbage; to get any decent IO you need to use SCSI. It sucks.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
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  • From Geri Atricks@21:4/102 to esc on Tuesday, April 04, 2023 00:43:56
    Man, I hateed SCSI! I worked at a Mac software company in the '90s, a
    I still hate SCSI :P and unfortunately so many old computers used it, so we have to use these jank adapters. My Amigas are the worst, I have all these scsi->CF adapters and things like that which always have their own problems. It's just a mess.

    Not to mention that there were so many different flavors of SCSI (SCSI, SCSI Wide, SCSI 1, etc).

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
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