Vintage Computers

My_King said:
But the Q still remains, should it not constantly be centred?
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I'm sure it should, but otherwise treasure it.
Obviously it has had a lot of fun enthusiastic gaming over the years. and has a few battle scars... :p
 
SeRpEnT said:
And I still have an old Sony DVD-RW (black faceplate nogals) in a box somewhere.

Found a .txt list I did the last time around 2008 when I stopped writing "backup" CD's and DVD's going as high as DVD #106. Geez back then always had the urge to backup all of the internet..movies MP3s you name it...
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Has since gone through about +- 150 or so DVD ROMS and CD ROMS that I cut back 15-20 years ago or so.
Kept them in spindles and the spindles in thick plastic bags which was stored in my wendy house in the back yard.
About 80% of them are f%rked. CRC errors galore, many just not responding, some even showing as blank (although there was content on there). Many of the discs stuck together ...one or two to each other... almost liked they were glued. Other ones had strange marks on them and some looked glueey.

By far most of them had divx movies "backup up" ( :ROFL: Oh why why why .... I guess back then that was my way of building a library of low quality movies...) and some had games and some other stuff (ahem!)...
Tried to establish which brand had the biggest failure rate (between Verbatim, Sony, Maxell and many more) but they all seem evenly crap now after so many years...

The couple of games I could however get off the discs however are playing nicely on the fresh XP system.
 
SeRpEnT said:
Has since gone through about +- 150 or so DVD ROMS and CD ROMS that I cut back 15-20 years ago or so.
Kept them in spindles and the spindles in thick plastic bags which was stored in my wendy house in the back yard.
About 80% of them are f%rked. CRC errors galore, many just not responding, some even showing as blank (although there was content on there). Many of the discs stuck together ...one or two to each other... almost liked they were glued. Other ones had strange marks on them and some looked glueey.

By far most of them had divx movies "backup up" ( :ROFL: Oh why why why .... I guess back then that was my way of building a library of low quality movies...) and some had games and some other stuff (ahem!)...
Tried to establish which brand had the biggest failure rate (between Verbatim, Sony, Maxell and many more) but they all seem evenly crap now after so many years...

The couple of games I could however get off the discs however are playing nicely on the fresh XP system.
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Not dismissing your experience but I have around 300 DVD writables that still work perfectly after 20 years, all Verbatim Datalife Plus discs. There are some cheaper CD brands such as Supalife and Eaglepower that did not survive, and some got disc-rot starting from the inner track.

I just wonder sometimes why the discrepancy between what other people experienced. I used to force write my discs at slower 4x speed instead of the max that the DVD-writer allowed and always verified my discs. Perhaps that gave the head-room for the yearly degradation to not affect my discs so much.
 
AnimateX said:
Not dismissing your experience but I have around 300 DVD writables that still work perfectly after 20 years, all Verbatim Datalife Plus discs. There are some cheaper CD brands such as Supalife and Eaglepower that did not survive, and some got disc-rot starting from the inner track.

I just wonder sometimes why the discrepancy between what other people experienced. I used to force write my discs at slower 4x speed instead of the max that the DVD-writer allowed and always verified my discs. Perhaps that gave the head-room for the yearly degradation to not affect my discs so much.
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You probably didn't let them melt in the wendy house in the back yard.
 
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