Post rare technologies

>>58910030
I picked up quite a few of those players at an auction way back. Pretty cool shit, CEDs age terribly though.

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any stupid idea you could think of you could probably buy for a PC in the '80s

>>58910030
Those really aren't that rare. I know two shops I could go grab some right now, including a bunch of Star Trek TOS episodes.

Still very cool, vinyle analog vidya... Love it!

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>>58910242
Yeah, I saw some at a local surplus store but after seeing the effort required to get them working online, and the poor quality of the result, I decided to grab Laserdiscs instead.

>>58910582
they're surprisingly common for something you've never heard of
still wouldn't say they're readily available though, despite being the most affordable option I don't think they sold that well

>>58910585
Mine mostly worked right off the floor but the media is much more sensitive to damage than its musical counterparts are so even a little scratch can really fuck shit up and cause serious skipping/repeating issues. The quality never bothered me much, it's a cheap format from the '80s after all. Just the underlying technology was what made it cool.

>>58910582
Note these are not LaserDiscs.

>>58910596
Yeah, they are hella cheap on ebay too.
>>58910608
Neat. I really do like the concept but this video turned me off collecting them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LrPe0rwXOU

Second downside of CED is that there is no H.

>>58910030
This video is fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pymAoh7KH64

>>58910633
>Yeah, they are hella cheap on ebay too.
There's very little about them to appeal to the consumer other than historic or novelty value. For something old like this to be very valuable it has to provide something you can't easily get today. These discs are (for the most part) strictly inferior to modern releases.

>>58910442
>AMD and Intel on the same chip

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>>58910817
it was almost weird not to use an AMD chip of some kind on pretty much any system back then, they made all kinds of supporting chips for all kinds of use cases