Who says CDROM drives are fragile?
The average person thinks that a CD player or CDROM drive is a delicate piece of precision equipment that will die given the least excuse. Well, chalk at least one up for the good guys! (From: Joseph E. Fealkovich (jef812@ix.netcom.com)). My best friend calls me up, he works at a computer outlet in Cleveland, OH (figure it had to be Cleveland 🙂 — sam), to tell me he has a Teac CDROM he ‘accidentally’ ran over with a pallet truck loaded with about 850 pounds of DOS and Windows (who says software isn’t a tangible asset 🙂 — sam). The CDROM drive is crushed a little bit in the rear, the faceplate popped off and skittered across the floor. Upon obtaining this CDROM drive, I look at it and yes, the back part is pretty well damaged. Me and my good friend Timmy take this poor unit apart to look at the insides. I’ll be damned, there is no internal damage whatsoever. All that has to be done is straighten the main chassis of this CDROM and straighten out the outer case. While I was at wor
The average person thinks that a CD player or CDROM drive is a delicate piece of precision equipment that will die given the least excuse. Well, chalk at least one up for the good guys! (From: Joseph E. Fealkovich (jef812@ix.netcom.com).) My best friend calls me up, he works at a computer outlet in Cleveland, OH (figure it had to be Cleveland! 🙂 — sam), to tell me he has a Teac CDROM he ‘accidentally’ ran over with a pallet truck loaded with about 850 pounds of DOS and Windows (who says software isn’t a tangible asset! 🙂 — sam). The CDROM drive is crushed a little bit in the rear, the faceplate popped off and skittered across the floor. Upon obtaining this CDROM drive, I look at it and yes, the back part is pretty well damaged. Me and my good friend Timmy take this poor unit apart to look at the insides. I’ll be damned, there is no internal damage whatsoever. All that has to be done is straighten the main chassis of this CDROM and straighten out the outer case. While I was at w
