Nunoalex wrote on Yesterday, 00:22:
very nice !
my first cd-rom was a mitsumi double speed that came with its dedicated controller card
I still have it but haven't tested it in more than 30 years... I need to get that guy out
Mitsumi is the only early proprietary optical drive I have never owned tried.
I once again have a Sony drive and sound card with Sony interface. It is single speed, and the tray is not motorized - the eject button activates a solenoid, and with a "clunk" the tray springs partway open. Then you slide it the rest of the way open and push closed manually. I think a friend gave it to me in the mid-90's after upgrading. It ended up in a 486 I built out of used parts with the intention to sell. My grandmother bought it, because she wanted to learn computers and "surf the internet." She did learn, quickly. Within a couple years purchased herself a new HP with an AMD K6-2. And many other newer PC's. She passed about a year ago. The PC I built, and the HP, were given to me. I checked/removed clock batteries, but I haven't booted either yet. I still remember that Sony eject "clunk" sound - maybe it is time to power it up and hear it again.
I also had a pair of Hitachi drives, in external enclosures were branded "Todd" with 8-bit proprietary ISA interface card. They used CD caddys. They were originally part of an early CD-ROM encyclopedia system at my schools library. I saved them from the trash pile when I worked part-time for their IT admin. The drivers were very limited and slow.
giantenemycat wrote on Yesterday, 14:15:
I think so - that looks like a standard 40-pin, but I cannot see the connector - just make sure no holes are blocked (keyed), since all 40 pins are populated on the drive connector.
