PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2020-11-03, 05:02:
I still have my original Pioneer DVD-304S slot loader from July 2000, and it's never missed a beat 😀
Some seemed to last forever, some had issues.
feipoa wrote on 2020-11-03, 05:34:
I've had a few (3) Pioneer DVD slot loaders over the years, but the slot loading mechanism always breaks. I gave up on those back in 2006. Hopefully you have better luck.
Yep had a few long ago, iirc each failed at some point to eject a CD and had to use the tool to eject the disk which ruined (marred the surface) of the CD because it was forced out on the rollers that were supposed to be spinning but were not.
Luckily this one works as new and ejects just fine and leaves no marks.
The other two CDrom's also work just fine. Ohh forgot to mention the 3rd drive before, which is a LG 52x IDE CDROM GCR-8521.
The LG was in a sealed box but was not completely new, more like a return or something but does work just fine and did include cables and manual but appears to have been case mounted sometime.
All three are beige and have the analog volume control on the front bezel which I think is great for adding to any 486 or Pentium box. Just my opinion 😀
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