The 1987 CD-ROM Experience: Hitachi CDR-1503S
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Fidel
So I remember CDs first showing up in stores around 1989. Up till then cassettes were king. By 1994 those tapes, still new releases btw, were in little shelves at the corner of the record store or kmart or whatever. The CD format took over fast. First CD I bought was one of Aerosmith's many, many greatest hits albums. the red one. My first computer was a Packard Bell Legend CD20 that came with lots of CDs. My favorite was MegaRace with Lance Boyle! Played that shit till the CD was unreadable. First game I bought on CD was Doom 2. I played that game and listened to music CDs whenever I could. I had to open the drive about 15 times to clean it and lube it It was so cheap. A crap Hitachi drive i think. and it always screwed up installs. One night the drive belt snapped and that was that. Got a 3x CD drive from Panasonic and it worked great for years. It was around that time I learned from my buddy how to build from scratch. His dad ran a computer shop out of his house so I got parts for cheap or sometimes free. That pre built Packard aged so quickly. and only by learning how to build and configure PCs I knew could overcome limitations with hardware. 3. 5 floppys were on the way out but still used. However it limitations were more and more apparent with every passing year. The great games coming out then were on CD, needed more powerful processing, RAM and even accelorator cards. Finding and building and then tweaking computers became my main hobby for years. Making boot disks and modifying files just to get something to run was pure bliss. Dont do it anymore unfortunately, but watching your videos really takes me back to that time when you had to work for your games to run. It was frusrating but it was fun. I'm running out of stuff I havent seen yet. so keep em coming! Thank you
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So I remember CDs first showing up in stores around 1989. Up till then cassettes were king. By 1994 those tapes, still new releases btw, were in little shelves at the corner of the record store or kmart or whatever. The CD format took over fast. First CD I bought was one of Aerosmith's many, many greatest hits albums. the red one. My first computer was a Packard Bell Legend CD20 that came with lots of CDs. My favorite was MegaRace with Lance Boyle! Played that shit till the CD was unreadable. First game I bought on CD was Doom 2. I played that game and listened to music CDs whenever I could. I had to open the drive about 15 times to clean it and lube it It was so cheap. A crap Hitachi drive i think. and it always screwed up installs. One night the drive belt snapped and that was that. Got a 3x CD drive from Panasonic and it worked great for years. It was around that time I learned from my buddy how to build from scratch. His dad ran a computer shop out of his house so I got parts for cheap or sometimes free. That pre built Packard aged so quickly. and only by learning how to build and configure PCs I knew could overcome limitations with hardware. 3. 5 floppys were on the way out but still used. However it limitations were more and more apparent with every passing year. The great games coming out then were on CD, needed more powerful processing, RAM and even accelorator cards. Finding and building and then tweaking computers became my main hobby for years. Making boot disks and modifying files just to get something to run was pure bliss. Dont do it anymore unfortunately, but watching your videos really takes me back to that time when you had to work for your games to run. It was frusrating but it was fun. I'm running out of stuff I havent seen yet. so keep em coming! Thank you
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David
Havent seen one of these for years. I got flown from Cambridge ( UK) to Madrid to install the internal version of this one ( it had the disc caddy) for the Bank of Spain. Would have been fine but the Compaq PC they provided didnt have the space for an internal drive A least I got a day trip to Spain out of it! Flew back a couple of weeks later with this external version.
We used to build a CD-ROM jukebox which had 8 SONY CD-ROM drives and held 270 discs. Sold a few to various UK & USA organisations. In the days when my day rate was more than it is now, 33 years later. Grrrr.
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Havent seen one of these for years. I got flown from Cambridge ( UK) to Madrid to install the internal version of this one ( it had the disc caddy) for the Bank of Spain. Would have been fine but the Compaq PC they provided didnt have the space for an internal drive A least I got a day trip to Spain out of it! Flew back a couple of weeks later with this external version.
We used to build a CD-ROM jukebox which had 8 SONY CD-ROM drives and held 270 discs. Sold a few to various UK & USA organisations. In the days when my day rate was more than it is now, 33 years later. Grrrr.
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nucflashevent
I know why they didn't (this unit dates from 1987 and it already used a tray and bare discs, etc) BUT I wish optical drive makers had continued offering caddy-based systems. I honestly haven't loaded a program from any disc is likely a decade or more, but I still do a hard backup once a month to 4x 50GB rewritable Bluray discs and if they were in caddys they would be a virtually indestructible method of storing data.
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I know why they didn't (this unit dates from 1987 and it already used a tray and bare discs, etc) BUT I wish optical drive makers had continued offering caddy-based systems. I honestly haven't loaded a program from any disc is likely a decade or more, but I still do a hard backup once a month to 4x 50GB rewritable Bluray discs and if they were in caddys they would be a virtually indestructible method of storing data.
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Thunder
Encarta and monkey island 2 was like best things I experience thanks to CD-ROMs.
Having a master CD with all DOS games was a dream for me when I was a kid but by the time I got one it was too late and definitely lost interest on them.
I use to pay money and buy one game at the time getting a copy into several 1. 44- disks, so much wasted time when one of the disk had corrupted data and had to get an extra copy xD
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Encarta and monkey island 2 was like best things I experience thanks to CD-ROMs.
Having a master CD with all DOS games was a dream for me when I was a kid but by the time I got one it was too late and definitely lost interest on them.
I use to pay money and buy one game at the time getting a copy into several 1. 44- disks, so much wasted time when one of the disk had corrupted data and had to get an extra copy xD
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douro20
The only 5162 I have ever seen personally was in a library and had an internal CD-ROM drive. They were running encyclopedia software on it. And that was around 1995/1996.
It used to be quite common for business to start Yellow Pages listings with -A- just so they could get into the beginning of the directory. Directory publishers eventually caught on to it and charged a VERY hefty premium for such listings.
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The only 5162 I have ever seen personally was in a library and had an internal CD-ROM drive. They were running encyclopedia software on it. And that was around 1995/1996.
It used to be quite common for business to start Yellow Pages listings with -A- just so they could get into the beginning of the directory. Directory publishers eventually caught on to it and charged a VERY hefty premium for such listings.
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Wizard
I remember when I was a kid, I tried installing a 'newer' CD-ROM drive into a Tandy IMB 1080 clone computer and disappointed I couldn't get it to work. I was too young and dumb to understand the concept of drivers, and regrettably, no longer have it, the software, or the nice IMB color monitor, like the one in your video, or the lovely IBM mechanical keyboard it came with from my Uncle's computer store.
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I remember when I was a kid, I tried installing a 'newer' CD-ROM drive into a Tandy IMB 1080 clone computer and disappointed I couldn't get it to work. I was too young and dumb to understand the concept of drivers, and regrettably, no longer have it, the software, or the nice IMB color monitor, like the one in your video, or the lovely IBM mechanical keyboard it came with from my Uncle's computer store.
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mattgamer
I first saw Myst and Jane's Longbow at my uncles house. I would wait till summer every year to play on his amazing Gateway (cow) Pentium I, then drool over the graphics and wish I had this thing in my house. The memories are so engrained that when I hear sounds it brings warm feelings of sneaking on the PC late at night just to watch Windows load and the Cyan logo appear with that epic Myst music.
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I first saw Myst and Jane's Longbow at my uncles house. I would wait till summer every year to play on his amazing Gateway (cow) Pentium I, then drool over the graphics and wish I had this thing in my house. The memories are so engrained that when I hear sounds it brings warm feelings of sneaking on the PC late at night just to watch Windows load and the Cyan logo appear with that epic Myst music.
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Ronnie
When I were a kid, at my school in the early 90's, they used Acorn Archimedes machines with a floppy drive. The teacher rigged a CDRom drive to it & I remember being amazed listening to CD quality audio of a program he loaded up of a man narrating, while good quality 16 bit photo bitmaps were slideshowing! -
Better than listening to midi music & the typical graphics
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When I were a kid, at my school in the early 90's, they used Acorn Archimedes machines with a floppy drive. The teacher rigged a CDRom drive to it & I remember being amazed listening to CD quality audio of a program he loaded up of a man narrating, while good quality 16 bit photo bitmaps were slideshowing! -
Better than listening to midi music & the typical graphics
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Frederico
I was fortunate to find a magazine in Brazil that sold a CD with -Settlers II- along with many demos inside of it, such as -Albion-. It was a treasure chest. I was amazed by the -Albion- game, but could never find the full version for playing it. It shows how games before the Internet had a harder path to walk in order to reach the customers that search for them.
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I was fortunate to find a magazine in Brazil that sold a CD with -Settlers II- along with many demos inside of it, such as -Albion-. It was a treasure chest. I was amazed by the -Albion- game, but could never find the full version for playing it. It shows how games before the Internet had a harder path to walk in order to reach the customers that search for them.
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Codeplayer
The first for me was a demo CD I bought from local -computer mall- that was a medium sized PC shop. Yes, they sold demo CDs. It worked with Windows 95 and I could use it at my moms workplace that had one computer with Windows 95. So it must have been 1995. I really don't remember the game names on it, but I will look it up.
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The first for me was a demo CD I bought from local -computer mall- that was a medium sized PC shop. Yes, they sold demo CDs. It worked with Windows 95 and I could use it at my moms workplace that had one computer with Windows 95. So it must have been 1995. I really don't remember the game names on it, but I will look it up.
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