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Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...

TL;DR: The SuperStation One is an affordable FPGA gaming console that recreates the original PlayStation hardware, allowing native game play without emulation. It supports modern and classic displays, ...

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Abstract: This paper describes a new recycling method for metal-coated plastics. Pulsed power technology was used to remove a metal layer (aluminum) from CD-ROM. The progress of removal and the state ...

Robotic arms and actuators are compelling things to watch, and as popular among the maker set as they are crucial to modern industry. [kthod2000] built a design of their own, which relies on parts ...

Replay: The battlefields of the audio visual world are littered with the corpses of dead formats, none more so than the fight to put moving images on to discs. With the exception of LaserDisc, none of ...

No more yellow box: The Rosetta Stone app for iOS is part of a digital lineup that also includes Android and web versions. (Rosetta Stone image) If you’re familiar with the language learning software ...

I was looking at my Oregon Trail disc, wondering which version it is, and I found out that it is version 1.0! I thought it was version 3.1 or something, but no, the very first 1.0. This is the 1993 ...

Apologies in advance for the ridiculously dumb question...<BR><BR>So, I'm at work in a new office, new computer (a funky old Compaq). It has 1 cd-rom, 1 cd-rw, and 3 ports on the back panel which are ...