Cleaning room: found tapedeck

[Silenced]

I was going through all my old computer gear and i came across a Colorado 250mb tape deck. Is this even worth messing with or should it be pitched. i was kinda thinking of using it for backing up files and shit until i get a burning, and right now im really really broke. I have a zip drive right now but i lost all of my zips :D. Will the deck be too slow for me to save things :confused:

Any thoughts or ideas on this prehistoric drive will be appreciated. Thanks a lot guys in advance.

[Farabomb]

Do you have a door that needs to be kept open? ;)

Put it up on ebay and see in anyone bites and take the $$ and buy a burner. :D

[Silenced]

Ya i just might put it on ebay u got a good point there. do u think that its really not worth the time to keep it?

[Player0]

I have a couple 2/4g units at home. Problem is, backing up 4g on one of those old things takes like 8 hours. So they sit collecting dust. 250m? Hell, a cd-drive holds nearly 3x that these days and will burn it probably 100x faster too.

I say ditch the thing honestly. You might get $5 on ebay if your lucky and have tapes to go with it.

[WesM63]

My thoughts exactly P0. I posted a few mins ago, but for some reason it did'nt show up? :confused:

[lechumbl]

Hi Silenced,

Chuck it, not worth anything in today's market.
Sell it on EBay, and the shipping costs more than the tape unit does.

Take care.........

[foment]

hey silenced!

Well just check www.techbargains.com you can see that this weekend office depot is having a sale on a48X cdrw. 9.99 after rebate. with a big store like office depot or staples, you are assured that you will get your rebate. i have gotten rebates from office depot, staples and bestbuy with any problems. if you dont mind having them "hold" your money for ya for a wee bit, its a great deal.

i work at a digital divide computer refurbishing center where we take donations and fix them and give them out to the community. we have been turning away tape drive donations since the inception of the program three years ago. i think the tape drive would probably work best as a paper weight.:)

[Ruantic]

hehe, I'm probably one of the biggest pack rats on this board, last Tuesday I found the strength to throw 2 Colorado 250's in my Garbage:D Even have some tapes around here yet..... sure don't miss the days of 100 meg HDs

[foment]

hehe at work I still come across hard drives that are three times thicker than contemporary hard drives and have roughly 50mb of storage.

its amazing how quickly the tech industry advanced.

and at my school we have eniac, one of the first computers made, which takes up a whole room and are programed to do functions by plugging wires in.

craziness!

[lechumbl]

Hi foment,

The first computer I worked on building was in 1965.
It was the size of a large room, and had thousands of vacuum tubes in it.
It also had less than 64 k of computing power.

Times do change.

Take care........

[WesM63]

Off topic: The first computer I ever worked on was a PII400 HP :D

[foment]

you were spoiled, but then again so was i. first computer i had was a 486/33mhz.

although at this refurbishing job, lately I have seen some old school ataris. they hvae some weird propriety monitor that connects with an odd AT looking connector hehee.

remember AT connectors? about three times as thick as ps/2 connector.

[WesM63]

Hehe.. I hate those AT connectors. Every once in a while I'll get a puter in here at work that uses an AT keyboard and a serail mouse. The lest they could do is bring the mouse/keyboard with them, but no. So I spend nearly an hour looking for them, and they wonder why it took longer than a day to look at there computer.

[Drake]

My first computer was a 166MHz, but my oldest was an Intel i486 25MHz.

[Silenced]

Hey guys thanx, i already lost the dang thing tho. About 2 hours after i posted i couldnt find it anymore. Maybe it threw itself out. :p Well im saving cash right now, im looking at getting a burner here shortly. Also looking at an intel machine, not sure if i want to cross over. :eatbomb: I really like the sounds of the hyper threading and the 800mhz. Cant really turn my head to that. :D

[Kill-Switch]

Originally posted by lechumbl
The first computer I worked on building was in 1965.
It was the size of a large room, and had thousands of vacuum tubes in it.
It also had less than 64 k of computing power.


But can it fold? LOL

I think my first computer I messed around on was a Commodore 64!! Gotta love waiting an hour for a game to load up only for it to crash the second you go to do anything :mad:

[lechumbl]

Hi K_S,

"But can it fold? LOL"
Fold?? Hell, it could not even compute. :D

Ah, the good ole' Commodore 64 days.
Bet there are not too many folk out there who remember the X86, let alone the Commodore. :eek:

Take care........

[Farabomb]

I remember bolth Commodore 64 and 128 :D

[Ruantic]

Bet there are not too many folk out there who remember the X86, let alone the Commodore.


I still have some of my older computers, including Apple //, Franklin Ace 1200, Vic 20, C64, IBM PC, IBM PC jr... Now if I just had the money I spent on those, I would add a few New Canterwood P4 3ghz 800 fsb systems to the folding farm, And still have enough left over to eat at McDonalds for a month....
:o

[Synthohol]

Originally posted by lechumbl
The first computer I worked on building was in 1965.
hey, good year for the Beatles and me being born!!:D i'v owned computers from the 8086 all the way up to todays models,(except p4's) complete with the atari and tandys.
aah remember the cassette drives and the 286's had that thing on a ribbon cable that plugged into different modules for different programs! hard drives came later in the day when Bill Gates was quoted at a conference saying "I cant see any program needing more than a whole one megabyte of memory" (paraphrased).
i missed the IBM punchcard days though. that would have been a neat E-bay item huh?

[unacceptable_risk]

first computer I ever used seriously was a BBC Microsystems at school, mates had c64's etc.

The first box I ever opened and tinkered with is an IBM pcs/pct. It has to have been amongst the first pc's delivered to Australia for sale.

I still have it and its a ripper....Stats: 4.77mhz clockspeed, whopping 40 MEG hd with a luxurious twin 5 1/4" floppy system, fitted with the amazing RGB colour card and monitor..thats right 3 whole colours!!

its my little museum piece.:D

_UR_

[DCMan]

lol.. i had a BBC too - it only really kicked in as the village Games Monster when I got a Disk Drive for it ttho ;) hehe... Actually.. I think I still have it somewhere....

DC :)