Post your Old CDs & FDs, from back in the day thread.

[ShrimpBrime]

Any other old pack rats around with some old school disks?

Here's PC Magazine and Maximum PC magazine 2007 and 2008. And also a Ruby Rom disk @vnl7 mentioned in another thread.

Back when you got swag from magazines

 

[Jetster]

CDs? They used to hand these out for $1 at PC shops in the early 90s
But I probably subscribe to PC Mag for 15 years

 

[iameatingjam]

This is all I can find at the moment. Diablo II has 3 disks and Legend of Dragoon has 4.... I hope thats all of them?
I know I have warcraft II somewhere.....

CDs? They used to hand these out for $1 at PC shops in the early 90s
But I probably subscribe to PC Mag for 15 years

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Ah the non floppy floppy disks. Reminds me of my mac se. Most of those games were pirated ( done via downloading on modern machine, transferring to beige g3 over local network, or maybe it was ftp, can't remember, anyway then it went onto floppy disk from there) but I believe I had an original copy of sim ant. I loved that machine soo much but it died in a move :'( at least it made it to its 30th birthday. I even had a youtube video up, a collection of me playing all my favourite games on its tiny 9" monochrome screen. It was some comfort when I missed the machine. Then one day, youtube deleted it for I don't know why reason :'(

 

[freeagent]

I found a Dreamcast in a box under my basement stairs the other day, got nothing for it though.. just a controller and some cables.

Outside of that.. I just have some old PC games in a box.. I will have to look tomorrow its almost my bedtime

 

[ShrimpBrime]

No doubt. I got a couple old pc games on disk still somewhere.

How about this one.

Anyone remember Circuit City?

 

[stahlhart]

I have hundreds of them, dating back to the 90s. Driver discs for hardware that is long gone, Windows 3.1 era multimedia programs, games from the 90s and 00s. I have no idea why I hang on to them. Nostalgia, I guess. I do have working P-I and P-III builds that I could still install them on.

 

[Jetster]

Remember all the pre PnP where you would have IRQ conflicts. Taking one piece of hardware out to get a sound card to work. Or the PC speaker? I still miss that sound

I bet there is a lot of young people that try to set up retro builds only to give up. It wasn't as easy as it is today

 

[Wirko]

Remember all the pre PnP where you would have IRQ conflicts. Taking one piece of hardware out to get a sound card to work. Or the PC speaker? I still miss that sound

I bet there is a lot of young people that try to set up retro builds only to give up. It wasn't as easy as it is today

Sure, but quirks like "PSU not powerful enough" and "power connectors incompatible between PSU, mobo and expansion cards" were only invented later.

On topic, this was a great piece of software:

 

[JIWIL]

Got a couple CD-Sleeve binders (remember those?) full of 90's software, took a few out and scanned them:

Unfortunately I tossed all the boxes and manuals during a move ~25 years ago. I saved a handful of them (Marathon I/II, Pathways into Darkness, Spectre, Out of this World) but gifted them away maybe 10 years ago. The early IMG editions came on floppies, pretty sure I have them in storage somewhere.

 

[AusWolf]

Remember all the pre PnP where you would have IRQ conflicts. Taking one piece of hardware out to get a sound card to work. Or the PC speaker? I still miss that sound

I bet there is a lot of young people that try to set up retro builds only to give up. It wasn't as easy as it is today

Or when you had to boot into DOS to start the Windows installer on a floppy disk manually through CLI, only then to be asked to insert the CD-ROM to copy the files.

I can't even remember those DOS commands anymore, only "dir" and "cd" to navigate. (I've always been terrible at remembering commands, but never mind)

 

[stahlhart]

Remember all the pre PnP where you would have IRQ conflicts. Taking one piece of hardware out to get a sound card to work. Or the PC speaker? I still miss that sound

I bet there is a lot of young people that try to set up retro builds only to give up. It wasn't as easy as it is today

I have this issue currently with my old P-I box -- I have a really nice 3DFX Voodoo3 PCI card I'd like to install in it, but for some reason it insists on taking IRQ10 and conflicts with the Turtle Beach Fiji. I could probably get them all to play nice if it weren't for the Adaptec AHA-2910C that the Plextor CD-ROM drives are using that also needs an interrupt. Just one short, even if I disable serial and parallel ports in the BIOS. So I'm stuck with a Diamond Stealth here. Oh well, I don't run games on it anyway; that's what the P-III is for.

I might try getting it to work again if I can figure out another way to connect the build to the NAS besides the 3Com ethernet card that also needs an interrupt, maybe an ethernet to USB adapter if I can get the drivers to work with 98SE. Rainy day project.

Since this is a post photos thread, I picked three at random:

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

Any other old pack rats around with some old school disks?

Here's PC Magazine and Maximum PC magazine 2007 and 2008. And also a Ruby Rom disk @vnl7 mentioned in another thread.

Back when you got swag from magazines

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What depresses me severely is that you can equally say "back when they used to exist."
Last issue, April 2023
I travelled for work a lot, and being able to snag a magazine and just enjoy the 30-60 minutes before the flight was always a way to let the work week come to an end. Alas, in 2023 I lost one more good thing in life. It's too bad, because I still prefer flipping through pages rather than flicking a screen. Good lord, do I feel old.

 

[AusWolf]

What depresses me severely is that you can equally say "back when they used to exist."
Last issue, April 2023
I travelled for work a lot, and being able to snag a magazine and just enjoy the 30-60 minutes before the flight was always a way to let the work week come to an end. Alas, in 2023 I lost one more good thing in life. It's too bad, because I still prefer flipping through pages rather than flicking a screen. Good lord, do I feel old.

I agree. Screens distract you from reality a bit too much. Not even joking. Flashy rectangles have this kind of psychological effect.

 

[Vayra86]

Hah I'm still proudly keeping hold of a Windows 7 SP1 on disc, in original case with a license code too Just in case Windows truly goes to shit some day.

And have a few 100-thick CD spindles full of burned CDs, with some random music CDs in between for god knows why

 

[AusWolf]

Just in case Windows truly goes to shit some day.

That has already happened.

 

[Psychoholic]

I have an old school CD "Binder" with probably 75 CDs in it from back in the day.
The BFG driver CD is a throw back, lol

 

[Audioave10]

Don't make me open all of the Boxes (please)...

 

[A Computer Guy]

No doubt. I got a couple old pc games on disk still somewhere.

How about this one.

Anyone remember Circuit City?

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I used to go there occasionally after CompUSA and Media Play closed.

 

[Bill_Bright]

LOL You kids are funny.

Now who can tell us what that pink thing is and why was it used? And when?

 

[Frick]

Don't make me open all of the Boxes (please)...

Ohhh that's some pretty serious money.

 

[Steevo]

LOL You kids are funny.

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Now who can tell us what that pink thing is and why was it used? And when?

I did Notch see that coming.

I had a binder and sleeves of CDs but my daughter has taken them, embracing the 90s with a discman and the now woth a new Iphone.

 

[A Computer Guy]

LOL You kids are funny.

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Now who can tell us what that pink thing is and why was it used? And when?

A single hole punch?

 

[neatfeatguy]

Wish I had a spot to put all my boxed PC games. Wish I also still had a lot of the ones from the 90s that my brother destroyed.....(Warcraft, Warcraft 2, Black & White, Diablo and the list goes on). I'm not in the mood to dig all my boxed games out and then put them all away. I've got two boxes filled with PC games, here is a picture of one of them and a shot of some jewel cases of a few games that don't have boxes anymore.

The discs for Age of Empires 3, if I remember correctly those came with a GPU purchase, but I can't remember which GPU. Maybe it was a GTX 280 I had? I doubt it was a GTX 570, but I just don't remember anymore.

I've got another box this size filled with about as many PC games as this one, except there are some large box games in there like Diablo 2, Darkstone, Half-Life and a couple others.

I'd really love to get a nice bookshelf to display all my games, but the wife doesn't want just random games filled on a bookshelf. So she stacks a bunch books that she's read on the shelves instead.....pffff, women.

 

[Bill_Bright]

I did Notch see that coming.

A single hole punch?

It is, but for a very specific purpose. So we are part way there.

It punches a hole (notch) in something - what and why?

 

[Steevo]

It is, but for a very specific purpose. So we are part way there.

It punches a hole (notch) in something - what and why?

Is it not the notch cutter for floppies?