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It was gone when I looked just 30 minutes after.

 

I would have snapped it up to substitute for a dented 99/4 (my second best one). I paid $250 for one in good newish condition many years ago.

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At this moment, I am a happy SCSI starter here on TI99 and Geneve :)

(and I am an almost unaware Geneve starter here and as well) :grin:

 

So I was jumping to the basement 20 times a day now, to search für some adapting stuff and so :)

But I have these boxes in the garage, with all that old stuff I saved from my old office :lust:

 

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Electrically, it should. But more software needs to be written to talk to it, as CDROMs don't use the same commands as hard drives.

 

With the advent of huge SD cards, USB memory sticks, multiple terabyte sized hard drives, and so much stuff downloadable direct from manufactures on the Internet, as well as other data, I have to wonder how much CD-ROM's are actually used anymore.

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I still have about 1.200 old Software-CD-ROMs, and at least the same in Audio-CDs. (all ripped)

I do not use them very often, but I like to have them, and to know that I can use them, if I want to.

 

Regarding the "direct downloadable stuff", after round about 10-15 years, allthis stuff will have gone.

Watch out for so many old TI-99-homepages, and all these links, all this things that have gone, and end up in "Error 404" today.

That´s why I never rely on online available resources, and download and save all things that I want or need.

(...and why I sometimes download & save whole servers today)

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With the advent of huge SD cards, USB memory sticks, multiple terabyte sized hard drives, and so much stuff downloadable direct from manufactures on the Internet, as well as other data, I have to wonder how much CD-ROM's are actually used anymore.

 

I direct the Honourable Gentleman to the answer given when such question is asked about floppy disks.

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Electrically, it should. But more software needs to be written to talk to it, as CDROMs don't use the same commands as hard drives.

 

Yuppers. If you can read a Zip drive on it it is possible it will work with a CD-ROM as both use ATAPI. The difference will be whether you have a program to read the CD-ROM filesystem (which appears to be what CD-Commander does.)

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