Does anyone know what a PC like this would have been used for / how to interface with it? No monitor or I/O ports
Does anyone know what a PC like this would have been used for / how to interface with it? No monitor or I/O ports
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That’s a disk duplicator, not a PC.
that is just for making CD copies not a pc at all
It can also be that it has a web interface and you acces it remotely via a browser and IP address.
There’s a monitor right at the top there.
Used for making legitimate, perfectly legal copies of discs in bulk. Definitely not for piracy.
If it has a low end AMD processor and you are ripping late 90’s music, it is a Duron Duron.
For when you have 8 gf’s and you need a custom mix cd fast…
That’s for playing Riven
We had one of those in the TV Station I used to work at. They used it back when they archieved stuff on dvds and to send copys of reports to the people that starred in them.
I bet that makes one hell of a racket
Burning all the kids at school pirated games and mix cds lol. I had a 4 disc setup hahha
People joke about these being for ~totally legal~ discs, but there were (and are!) plenty of legitimate uses for a machine like this. If you’re an independent music creator and can’t quite afford to have your CDs formally pressed, this is an option. Heck, once upon a time if you were a smaller press shop, you’d still have a setup like this and then a separate setup for printing disc art onto the front of the disc in professional(ish) quality. Truly professional disc printers use a setup not unlike this, just orders of magnitude bigger.
Or, like people said, library archival copies, media copies for things like newsrooms in the days before high speed internet (or for places it’s harder to reach with HSI instead of physical copies!), etc.
This post made me feel old.
Pron distribution of DVDs.
used to mass produce dvds
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhMV37a7xmY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhMV37a7xmY)
commonly used back in the day for dodgy films
I’m 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this!
That’s a make-me-rich machine from the 2000’s
Produce copies of movies downloaded from torrent sites and selling them.
It’s for duplicating cd’s rapidly
Looks like a cd or dvd copier
I used to work at a “IT shop” selling pirated games many many decades back.
We use these to duplicate the CDs “on the fly” and sell them out.
This was colloquially referred to as a “toaster”. Back in the 90s I had a backup business and ended up with 3 of these and the robotic arm that could move discs from a spindle to the drive. I could hit a button and set a fresh 100 dvdr spindle and come back hours later and have 100 burned discs. I would occasionally get business from the adult industry.
As to how to interface to it. Good luck. Most were proprietary, either an Ethernet connection that would get an ip and open a socket or, like mine, rs232 and a manual with the commands to send.
That’s a usb3 input in the back which makes this a giant usb device. It was commonly used for burning movies and cd’s en masse in the early 2000’s and (probably) selling them
Many companies got into on demand DVD printing.
For example, they would film a live event as it happens and the minute it’s over they would have rows of these type of systems burning copies and even printed on the spot to sale as people exited the venue.
Other companies used it for promotion CDs and DVDs and such and yes there were those that did bootlegs.
Once streaming became a thing, the industry died. You can still get those but the companies that use to use them have moved to streaming on demand.
I used to work for a company that made these and, in the heyday, they sold a lot of them.
Backup copies of Netflix DVDs
For safety
Yoooo where’s the guy from a few weeks ago that was flexing his 3 disc drives?? This guy has him beat lol
That’s a disc Copy Station, I’ve Always wanted one of These!
LOL I used to have one of these. It was a cool machine
It was probably used for industrial scale piracy.
oh sweet summer child…
One Pirate Bay Pc
Porn, and lots of it…
Thankfully the back has a usb-b cable (aka a printer cable if you need to search one online to buy) which means you can plug it into a modern pc and it should be recognized as a usb device and show you all the disc drive at once in file manager
smells of rum and fish, like a pirates ship
Maybe a server kind of thing? Someone did a video on this, I think it was LGR.
My brothers, cousins and I all have similar rigs, duplicating and copying pirate movies, Asian movies and drama till some was arrested and got prison sentence then along came stable internet/torren and streaming provider everybody stopped slowly
runs off USB it’s just a CD drive cluster
CD tower. Schools would have them to serve encyclopedia information, etc. You could mount them as network drives in Novell.
hehe
Pirate bay before piratebay.
Research and/or engineering software
Its a CD tower it works using usb or as a nas
Mostly burning bootleg movies for the flea market/barbershops across the country
Close to a [Condre Infinity 7](https://www.cd-writer.com/Condre%20Infinity%207%20Drive%20DVD%2016X%2048X%20Duplicator.html)
You wouldn’t download a car
Fuck I’m old.
CD/DVD RAID 0 array /s
Well you see, the secret ingredient is crime.