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Restoration of a website I made in 2000 (www.pmarks.net)

submitted 8 months ago by p1mrx to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Tape drive! I had one of those back in the mid to late 90s, salvaged from my dad's dead office PC. I was around 10, and the fact that it worked to take a part from a machine and put it into another, as well as the absolutely insane storage capacity of the tapes... felt like magic. No clue how I knew what to do, either, but it worked.

Edit. Hazy on the specs, but I think it would have been a Pentium 1 (166MHz) with 16MB RAM, and 1.2GB HDD seems about right. Played the heck out of Rayman on that.

[–] p1mrx 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That DI-30 tape drive was a couple years older than the rest of the system. That's why it's half the size of the hard drive. It was a consumer-grade format with somewhat janky proprietary software.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I remember the software being very janky, too. But then again, that was Windows 95 days. 😅

Monkey island for hours and hours. Man I had a good time with that PC. Thanks for bringing back those memories.