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There are a plenty of good 5 1/4 floppy drives in that pile.
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That is crazy! Imagine the shipping costs if the seller did decide to offer postage.
I'd recommend posting this in the eBay thread though instead of making a new thread about it.
I can't imagine anyone ever buying that many CD ROM drives. What would you do with them?
You know how little kids sometimes have a bedroom full of stuffed animals with names and imaginary personalities? Imagine that but a grown man with CD-ROM drives.
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wrote:You know how little kids sometimes have a bedroom full of stuffed animals with names and imaginary personalities? Imagine that but a grown man with CD-ROM drives.
*imagines the contrast of someone hugging a teddy bear vs. someone hugging a CD-ROM drive which proceeds to burn said person's eyes out with its laser* XD
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wrote:I can't imagine anyone ever buying that many CD ROM drives. What would you do with them?
Maybe build a lot of retro PCs and sell them like mad? I don't know, I find it hard to justify buying a lot like this myself (and there are also burners and removable hard drive bays as well 😮 ).
Ooohh, the pain......
wrote:I can't imagine anyone ever buying that many CD ROM drives. What would you do with them?
I was once a member of the website called cdfreaks.com 😉 Had 4 optical drives in my computer.
wrote:wrote:I can't imagine anyone ever buying that many CD ROM drives. What would you do with them?
I was once a member of the website called cdfreaks.com 😉 Had 4 optical drives in my computer.
I see no problem with 4 drives in a computer... but 100++ is another story... maybe he was a "pirate" back in the days before high speed internet 🤣
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It's not that hard for a "pc repairs/sales shop" to gather this amount of drivers , especially when then range from 5.25 fdds to cdroms. IMHO most of them are dead and were just "kept just in case"
There is a guy 5 minutes from my house in the poor part of town that runs a computer repair shop. He has even more CD-ROMs, FDDs, HDDs and so on in storage. I used to be able to just go in the back and take what I wanted in exchange for helping him out with organizing (the poor guy is a hoarder without too much attachment to his inventory). Unfortunately most of it is from the Pentium 4 onward timeframe (of no interest to me).
99% of this stuff ends up being shredded anyway.
A few months ago I bought a lot of 8 CD-ROM drives on eBay. It also came with a Mitsumi controller card and a CT1350. The CT1350 paid for the whole bunch after I sold it to someone. I ended up using 5 CD-ROMs but could not get 3 to work (Mitsumi 1X, Aztech 2X IDE and another SCSI 2X). I still have the Sony CDU-33A 2X , a Mediavision SCSI 2X, Mitsumi 2X in use. I sold a Creative 8X in my Digital Venturis and I do not remember the 5th.
wrote:I can't imagine anyone ever buying that many CD ROM drives. What would you do with them?
I think i would buy it for the rare pieces.. The rest i would clean and selling it again when its tested good.
The drives that would to defective i would rip the PCB from it or other usable parts to repair the oldest drives that have the most value.
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With that volume it would take you months / years to test / clean / strip / package / ship. Not worth the $. There is very little demand for CD-ROMs and prices are really low.
Maybe there also some Proprietary drives in that lot, or 2x till 8 speed SCSI / IDE driver.. Iam really look for them.. What is broken iam trying to fix..
I have spare time enough to test those.. And only i test what i can..
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wrote:Maybe there also some Proprietary drives in that lot, or 2x till 8 speed SCSI / IDE driver.. Iam really look for them.. What is broken iam trying to fix..
I have spare time enough to test those.. And only i test what i can..
As was already mentioned, it will take a lot of time to sort through all those drives, figure out which ones are special and which ones are common, and then testing them. And once you have the ones that you think are rare culled from the lot, what do you do with the rest?
Proprietary, 2X, 4X, 6X, 8X and SCSI pop up on eBay all time. Anyway: if you like to spend a day driving back and forth and spend a lof ot $ on gasoline and even more $ converted from time spent go for it. 😀
