Antiques

[kees_s]

Some more antiques have turned up.

Comments

[fub]

My dad had one of the first CD burners, to burn digitised photos with. The CAS in Winschoten ran our software/hardware solution to digitise and describe glass plate negatives from the 30's. These were then written on a removable harddisk which was sent to my dad's office in Eindhoven. He would process the whole thing and then make several copies of it on a CD.
You had to use SCSI (not a common feature in PCs back then!), defragment the drive, then set it to record and leave the room without disturbing anything! The discs cost a fortune too...

[kees_s]

I used to know someone who had one of these early recorders, but he lived in a house with wooden floors. He couldn't use the recorder, since the vibrations from people walking about in the house were already too much. He had to move it to his office, where they had concrete floors.

[caniche]

You think you can still play those betamax tapes with that player you found?

[kees_s]

The one in the photo doesn't work any more, but I have another one that does still work.