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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: koaftder on October 25, 2005, 11:23:39 PM
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What ever happened to the play button on generic cdrom drives? This was great, as back in 96-98 i used to frequent the dumpsters every 2 days at each local PC repair shop. I had a freakin stack of busted cdrom drives and PS2 power supplies and cheap pc speakers and modified boom boxes. The ide interfaces would go out, but they would still play cds.
I had a cdplayer in each room of my place. I had a cdplayer for each bathroom. Me and my roommates cut out a space large enough for one of these drives, and stuffed into the arm rest of our couch. We put the powersupply in some empty space in the couch. Everybody was smoking blunts and drinking 40s, listening to WuTang on our incouch cd player, man, them were the days...
Oh, and i had an amiga back then too, so i'm still on topic.
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This was great, as back in 96-98 i used to frequent the dumpsters every 2 days
Hey, now I remember you.
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I'm sure you can still get really cheap unbranded CD-ROMs with "play" buttons on them - perhaps as "new old stock" or at a computer fair?
In any case, it's probably just a cost-cutting move by the manufacturers, plus I guess not many people in the overall scheme of things used them...
The same thing is happening with front-mounted headphone sockets and volume controls.
- Ali