The 75-disc tower! KDS PC Controlled CD Organizer from 2001
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Date: 2024-07-12
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renakunisaki
Up to 127 is flagrant false advertising. That's the maximum number of devices you can have on one USB host, _however_ each hub also counts as a device, meaning the absolute maximum is 126 of these.
And that's assuming a single 126-port hub, which I'm not sure is even possible. Every hub I've seen with more than 4 ports is actually multiple 4-port hubs chained together. (That's why they're always N ports where N is 4 a multiple of 3)
In practice, that means about 1/4 of the devices are hubs, giving you a true maximum of about 96 towers.
Of course you can install multiple USB cards to bypass this limit by having multiple independent hosts with 127 devices each. At that point the limit is how many cards you can install. I wonder if the software can deal with _more_ than 127 towers
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Up to 127 is flagrant false advertising. That's the maximum number of devices you can have on one USB host, _however_ each hub also counts as a device, meaning the absolute maximum is 126 of these.
And that's assuming a single 126-port hub, which I'm not sure is even possible. Every hub I've seen with more than 4 ports is actually multiple 4-port hubs chained together. (That's why they're always N ports where N is 4 a multiple of 3)
In practice, that means about 1/4 of the devices are hubs, giving you a true maximum of about 96 towers.
Of course you can install multiple USB cards to bypass this limit by having multiple independent hosts with 127 devices each. At that point the limit is how many cards you can install. I wonder if the software can deal with _more_ than 127 towers
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morlamweb
I worked with and supported 100/200/600 CD and DVD jukeboxes from JVC earlier in my career. They had read/write drives built in, were SCSI-attached, and generally meant for data center use before HDD storage became a cheap commodity. They broke down frequently and were a giant pain to use. My company dropped support for them 15 years ago and I don't miss them one bit. I heard that JVC did release a BD version of their Jukeboxes, but I didn't care about their crappy products by that point, so I can't confirm.
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I worked with and supported 100/200/600 CD and DVD jukeboxes from JVC earlier in my career. They had read/write drives built in, were SCSI-attached, and generally meant for data center use before HDD storage became a cheap commodity. They broke down frequently and were a giant pain to use. My company dropped support for them 15 years ago and I don't miss them one bit. I heard that JVC did release a BD version of their Jukeboxes, but I didn't care about their crappy products by that point, so I can't confirm.
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Brando56894
I wanted one of these things so badly. I ended up getting a non-motorized one that held about 50 CDs. It was a smaller version of the black one in the top left corner of the thumbnails that you showed about other options. It worked pretty damn well since there wasn't really anything to break (the knob was a simple pressure thing, so even if it broke completely you could still use it, it's actually still at my parent's house somewhere! The only thing that was a pain was keeping the Index card up to date
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I wanted one of these things so badly. I ended up getting a non-motorized one that held about 50 CDs. It was a smaller version of the black one in the top left corner of the thumbnails that you showed about other options. It worked pretty damn well since there wasn't really anything to break (the knob was a simple pressure thing, so even if it broke completely you could still use it, it's actually still at my parent's house somewhere! The only thing that was a pain was keeping the Index card up to date
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Brazbit
I remember being tempted by this product at the time. I was drowning in various 12-24 CD holders full of discs and thought this would both save a lot of room and scratch the major mildly useful gadget itch I had at the time. In the end I decided just to get one of those X00 CD folders as it solved the space problem for a fraction the cost and was probably faster. Plus, it was infinitely easier to sell the idea of a folder to the wife than a giant motorized disc tower.
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I remember being tempted by this product at the time. I was drowning in various 12-24 CD holders full of discs and thought this would both save a lot of room and scratch the major mildly useful gadget itch I had at the time. In the end I decided just to get one of those X00 CD folders as it solved the space problem for a fraction the cost and was probably faster. Plus, it was infinitely easier to sell the idea of a folder to the wife than a giant motorized disc tower.
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BVoris6977
One of my employers had a system similar to this back in the early 2000's. Used it for disc sharing, and access controls. It was for a civil engineering company that used discs from city, county, and state for embedding in CAD and Microstation drawings. We also tested a similar lending feature between offices to keep track of where a CD went and who had it. We used it for about 2 years. It was later repurposed as a Windows 2003 file server for disc images.
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One of my employers had a system similar to this back in the early 2000's. Used it for disc sharing, and access controls. It was for a civil engineering company that used discs from city, county, and state for embedding in CAD and Microstation drawings. We also tested a similar lending feature between offices to keep track of where a CD went and who had it. We used it for about 2 years. It was later repurposed as a Windows 2003 file server for disc images.
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Z3llix
I wish i had something like this but bigger, or a few of these, for my console demo disc collection. All the dvd and jewel cases are in storage to save space (only full games on the shelves, and the discs are in folders.
But this is probably less convenient than the folders and could die with discs stuck in. Im imagining these in 1 room for storage, and then asking alexa to eject xbox demo 45, and by the time i get to the storage room it's waiting for me.
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I wish i had something like this but bigger, or a few of these, for my console demo disc collection. All the dvd and jewel cases are in storage to save space (only full games on the shelves, and the discs are in folders.
But this is probably less convenient than the folders and could die with discs stuck in. Im imagining these in 1 room for storage, and then asking alexa to eject xbox demo 45, and by the time i get to the storage room it's waiting for me.
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dataterminal
I was working in a college until '98, and we had the axis CDROM servers. They take up a single drive bay, and allowed you to connect multiple cdrom drives to the scsi port. We were using full towers with 15 cdrom drives in each one to store clip art, office, encarta, etc on our network of approx. 200 machines, serving our remaining 386 and 486 machines. Came in fast ethernet and token ring types, would be fun to see you review something like that.
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I was working in a college until '98, and we had the axis CDROM servers. They take up a single drive bay, and allowed you to connect multiple cdrom drives to the scsi port. We were using full towers with 15 cdrom drives in each one to store clip art, office, encarta, etc on our network of approx. 200 machines, serving our remaining 386 and 486 machines. Came in fast ethernet and token ring types, would be fun to see you review something like that.
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youdontknowme5969
This SO looks like something an old college buddy of mine would've gotten, AND try to use it in his car, just for the flex LOL!
Aaahh, I can smell the fresh 21-year-old never-unsealed ABS plastic from here.
Next Blerb video: connecting [theoretically] 127 of these to your PC (I wager about 87 before the USB bus crashes LOL)
ps: I'd have populated only the prime-numbered slots because reasons and lights are pretty
pps: birds
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This SO looks like something an old college buddy of mine would've gotten, AND try to use it in his car, just for the flex LOL!
Aaahh, I can smell the fresh 21-year-old never-unsealed ABS plastic from here.
Next Blerb video: connecting [theoretically] 127 of these to your PC (I wager about 87 before the USB bus crashes LOL)
ps: I'd have populated only the prime-numbered slots because reasons and lights are pretty
pps: birds
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scherge
Awesome how you massacred the pronunciation of Bi-Fi don't know if it's called that anywhere else, but here in Germany this is pronounced Beefy, which is a semi-smart word play hinting towards the massive amounts of beef in all those single packed dry salami sticks. You know, the ones that smell a bit like fart when you open them That's a Bi-Fi (Beefy)
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Awesome how you massacred the pronunciation of Bi-Fi don't know if it's called that anywhere else, but here in Germany this is pronounced Beefy, which is a semi-smart word play hinting towards the massive amounts of beef in all those single packed dry salami sticks. You know, the ones that smell a bit like fart when you open them That's a Bi-Fi (Beefy)
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rich_edwards79
Peetty sure Gracenote CDDB got bought up, and started charging licencing fees to companies like this, which not only broke everything that was pointed at their servers, but also raised a lot of hackles given that the database was originally user-generated and had originally been intended to remain free and accessible to all.
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Peetty sure Gracenote CDDB got bought up, and started charging licencing fees to companies like this, which not only broke everything that was pointed at their servers, but also raised a lot of hackles given that the database was originally user-generated and had originally been intended to remain free and accessible to all.
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Mech4
That would be useful for libraries with collections of databases on CDs. You could provide access without having to take them out of the collection whenever people wanted to use them for research. Though I would be concerned about the wear and tear on the CDs and whether that's any more than the usual CD drive in a PC.
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That would be useful for libraries with collections of databases on CDs. You could provide access without having to take them out of the collection whenever people wanted to use them for research. Though I would be concerned about the wear and tear on the CDs and whether that's any more than the usual CD drive in a PC.
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avtips4779
With the file search function I feel that this was meant to be marketed torwards game devs, because the tower could be full of CD-ROMs containing copyright free textures, music, sfx, etc. and the dev could just search up a skull for example and it would locate the say, 4 disks that contain the files of a skull
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With the file search function I feel that this was meant to be marketed torwards game devs, because the tower could be full of CD-ROMs containing copyright free textures, music, sfx, etc. and the dev could just search up a skull for example and it would locate the say, 4 disks that contain the files of a skull
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stephenroberts7554
I have a technics 60 disc changer that's one of the most advanced at the time because you could also write down all the info on each disc in the system and some disc's had the info built in and it would store the info if you wanted it too quite a machine of course it costs me 250$ back in the late 90s
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I have a technics 60 disc changer that's one of the most advanced at the time because you could also write down all the info on each disc in the system and some disc's had the info built in and it would store the info if you wanted it too quite a machine of course it costs me 250$ back in the late 90s
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whatscheiser
Sorry to just toss this in as its probably a little unrelated. but I was wondering how you generally go about storing old PC expansion cards I know you've got a pretty extensive collection of hardware and I was just wondering if you have found any good ways of keeping it protected when in storage. Thanks!
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Sorry to just toss this in as its probably a little unrelated. but I was wondering how you generally go about storing old PC expansion cards I know you've got a pretty extensive collection of hardware and I was just wondering if you have found any good ways of keeping it protected when in storage. Thanks!
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paulstubbs7678
Interesting box, the software catalogue seems to be the best part - I have a truckload of CD's, with no idea what's on 95% of them. It would be SO much better if it had an integrated drive.
I'd love to put all my DVD's into a multi disk bank, and be able to choose what movie I wanted to watch.
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Interesting box, the software catalogue seems to be the best part - I have a truckload of CD's, with no idea what's on 95% of them. It would be SO much better if it had an integrated drive.
I'd love to put all my DVD's into a multi disk bank, and be able to choose what movie I wanted to watch.
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ringbling420
I used to work at Powerfile in foster city in 2008 and they made a product that was a data archive and used devices just like that Vaio disc carousel you showed - 200 disc bluray burners basically. I fully regret not stealing one when they laid me off due to the economic crash of that year.
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I used to work at Powerfile in foster city in 2008 and they made a product that was a data archive and used devices just like that Vaio disc carousel you showed - 200 disc bluray burners basically. I fully regret not stealing one when they laid me off due to the economic crash of that year.
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StigDesign
Perhaps this fits with your xp pc with all the bays hehe: D
this thing is actually pretty cool, especially for storing cd-rs and cataloge them: D
oh TranceMaster/TranceMasters was awesome trance music albums i have lots of them too, also Rave Mission and Goliath and Techno clubb: D
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Perhaps this fits with your xp pc with all the bays hehe: D
this thing is actually pretty cool, especially for storing cd-rs and cataloge them: D
oh TranceMaster/TranceMasters was awesome trance music albums i have lots of them too, also Rave Mission and Goliath and Techno clubb: D
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JustCallMePCra
Not only did I have one of these I had 2. I used them for about 1 month and boom one wouldn't work on about 10 trays and the other just stopped. These were horribly unreliable back in the day. I believe it was PC Mag that did a write up about all the issue they were experiencing.
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Not only did I have one of these I had 2. I used them for about 1 month and boom one wouldn't work on about 10 trays and the other just stopped. These were horribly unreliable back in the day. I believe it was PC Mag that did a write up about all the issue they were experiencing.
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regorllerref
This is very cool, I really could use something like this, if I stored a lot of stuff on cd-rws (like back in the day) this would be a godsend. Honestly that program is just really well made, I'm sure there is something now days that could be just as useful, but still very neat.
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This is very cool, I really could use something like this, if I stored a lot of stuff on cd-rws (like back in the day) this would be a godsend. Honestly that program is just really well made, I'm sure there is something now days that could be just as useful, but still very neat.
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adamw9764
My uncle had this thing! He would keep all of his games and other random CD stuff in there, I remember him showing me the software catalog he built (he would take the jewel cases and store them in big totes in his attic. What a throw back and walk down memory lane, LGR is the best!
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My uncle had this thing! He would keep all of his games and other random CD stuff in there, I remember him showing me the software catalog he built (he would take the jewel cases and store them in big totes in his attic. What a throw back and walk down memory lane, LGR is the best!
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