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Later on some industry committee renamed it Small Computer System Interface. I worked at the company that invented SCSI. Both of the drives I used eventually malfunctioned and ate their tapes. I made the mistake (actually twice) of using tapes for computer backup. The optical drives were probably not used much by home users because they were expensive. The WORM disks were about 12 inches in diameter. We hoped that would be more reliable than 12-inch data tapes.
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They were probably about the same or a little bigger that a CD.Īround that time we started using a a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) drive archive data for our scientific research data. Around 1990 we started using magneto-optical disks to back up our research development computer. (5 discs cost more than the burner.) M-discs are supposed to last for centuries, but I have no one to hand any down to. I recently got an LG BluRay burner that supports 100GB M-Discs. I haven't bought every tech that went obsolete.
I know one guy who owned (owns?) a Sony MiniDisc device. I neglected to mention magneto-optical discs.
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The LS120 and LS240 drivers were more advanced drives that also used floptical (magnetic recording, laser tracking) technology. At introduction, the disks were around $1 per megabyte. I may still have a drive in a closet somewhere. The original Floptical drives had a nominal 21MB capacity. As far as I know NetZero is still around and one of the last free dial-up internet providers. I used it to access my NetZero dial-up internet. The last time I used the USRobotics 3CP5610A modem was when my cable internet went down. I have not used it in years so I don't know if it still works. I still have the USRobotics 3CP5610A modem in my other desktop with Windows 10. The 3CP5610A was a hardware modem which was faster than the cheaper software modems you could get. As far I remember 56K modems were limited to about 48kbps or 33.6kbps depending upon the modem and connection. I was happy to get a download speed of 4 kbytes per second which was probably close to the max that was possible with a 56K modem. My best modem was the USRobotics 3CP5610A 56K Performance Pro Modem. I accidentally set a too high resolution/frequency and blew my monitor.īTW, my first modem was a Hayes 300 bit/s Smartmodem.
The Beta video display menu did not restrict the choices to supported resolutions by the graphics card and monitor. The Beta had some broken code that the release fixed.Ģ. Two things prompted me to finally buy the Windows 95 release version.ġ. I kept using the Windows 95 Beta until maybe January 1996. I am not sure but I think I remember Microsoft switched to releasing the Windows 95 Beta on CDs in mid 1995. I received the initial releases on 3-1/2 inch floppy disks.
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When I tested Windows 7 I had a fancy new fangled 33.6 kbit/s modem (actually, I think it was a firmware upgrade of my 28.8 US Robotics that upped it to 33.6).I was also a Windows 95 Beta Tester in early 1995. As a Windows 95 Beta Tester, I used to leave the old phone modem connected all night long downloading Windows 95 at 28.8 kbit/s.