Thought I could start a thread where everyone can put up pics of old and odd stuff they've got/found! Like this CD player. a really old Philips CD player for computers.. Manufactured April 1992! (Proof) Cant really test it and see if it works, since Im not sure where to plug it in.. It looks like this: The only port on my computer that's the right size, is the gameport (Yellow) But connecting a CD player to that...? Oh well, post your old & odd stuff you've got/found!
Old PC/server Still dont know what those cards are for, or what it is used for or what to control it with..
Jokkocze: That CD drive needs a specially designed controller card to work. Good for paper weight without it. Those three identical cards? I'd bet they are SCSI controllers.
I wouldn't be supprised that the CD player plugged into the Joystick port, I remember a couple of old computers where the CD-Rom was acctually attached to the Sound Card internally.
Actually, in those systems, I think the soundcard contained its own IDE port - in the days when motherboards had 2 floppy connectors and only 1 IDE connector
Joystick port? I fitted a player not dissimilar into my boss's Epson 286 in early 1991, DOS 3.3, no Win (Win 3.0 had arrived in 1990), and no sound. It did come with a plug-in card, dunno if it doubled as a soundcard but he had no speakers. My first Teac CD player from 1994 plugged into a Diamond soundcard, with choice of interface. By then they were 5.25" though. Anyroad, teh Mini-Diskette drive from my second PC, a 286 bought in 1991: OnTrack's Disk Manager software (©1987) allowed a HDD to be formatted to over the 20/32Mb ST-506 limits.
Pfft, thats nothing, I've modded stuff older then that! Left to right, top row: large collection of ISA sound cards; 5.25" SCSI HDD; Diamond Multimedia Monster 3D II PCI 12MB; Mitsubishi 5.25" HDD with unknown connector!; large stack of ISA modems; video signal cleaner/booster. Bottom row: ISA controler boards; ISA video card; FDD drive with disk one of InstantArtist!
OK, malf, let's go back a bit further. My first compooter build (and I mean, build, none of this, "all you need is a screwdriver") : And my first compooter mod on it:
It was actually ATAPI (AT Attachment Packet Interface), not IDE. From left to right... VGA/Parallel controller. Looks like it may also have internal IDE and/or FDD NIC SCSI-1 SCSI-1 SCSI-1
