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First post, by 3dfxpowa

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Hey,

Does anyone know about a website still online that lists old IDE optical drives ? I remember of CDFreaks that was perfect but it's dead 🙁
I'm searching for IDE drives with good access time, I had an Hitachi CDR-7930 8x by the past and it was very fast as I can remember...

Any help ?

PS : As I want to play in real old days conditions, don't mention emulation software like Daemon Tools please 😉

CPU : INTEL Pentium 233 MMX
MOBO : ASUS SP97-V
RAM : 64Mb SIMM FPM 60ns
GRAPHICS : MATROX Millenium 2 PCI 4Mb
3D ACCELERATOR : CREATIVE Voodoo 2 8Mb PCI (CT6670) SLI mode
SOUND : CREATIVE Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA (CT3670)
LAN : 3COM 3C905B-TX-NM PCI

Reply 2 of 3, by Horun

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CdFreaks archive still has the CDRW/DVDR reviews from 2001 and up but cannot find the CDROM reviews:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031207053732/htt … rticle/search/B
for CDR and early DVDR thru 2006: http://web.archive.org/web/20060902042943/htt … ticle/search/B/
One example: http://web.archive.org/web/20040225184850/htt … om/article/82/4
Their old forums are not really archived...........

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 3 of 3, by 3dfxpowa

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Many thanks !
I didn't think about archive.org 😀
Well, I have lots of reading now... hehe

CPU : INTEL Pentium 233 MMX
MOBO : ASUS SP97-V
RAM : 64Mb SIMM FPM 60ns
GRAPHICS : MATROX Millenium 2 PCI 4Mb
3D ACCELERATOR : CREATIVE Voodoo 2 8Mb PCI (CT6670) SLI mode
SOUND : CREATIVE Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA (CT3670)
LAN : 3COM 3C905B-TX-NM PCI

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