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@Lilith Das Versenden einer CD-ROM ist auch symbolisch treffend: der Justizvollzug ist in vielen Bereichen technisch im 20. Jahrhundert stehen geblieben. Für Gefangene ist das besonders verheerend, denn sich alleine im Bereich der Consumersoftware up to date zu halten scheitert. Ja, es gibt Leuchtturmprojekte: zB können in der JVA Freiburg Abiturienten an der FernUni Hagen studieren und bekommen dafür Zugang zu einem Studi-Computerraum (mit getunneltem Zugang zur FernUni). Aber einen Flur weiter, da hacken die Gefangenen auf einer alten mechanischen Schreibmaschine ihre Briefe aufs Papier.

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@command_tab Your story takes me back to 1991 when I worked for a startup that had the first CD-ROM writer that I probably ever saw. It was a big desktop box with a SCSI connection and hard disk drives in it to create a master image before writing it all out in one session. (This was before even multi-session recording on writable CD-ROMs.) It cost $25,000 back then.

We mastered two CD-ROMs and they sent me out to Sony's DADC factory in Indiana, which duplicated the masters, had me verify them, and pressed 500 of each. I then hauled them back to California by air.

One of the images was the first copy of Microsoft Windows on CD-ROM. Bill Gates's assistant called and ordered two copies for him.

Good times.

Some time ago, I was asked to share notes and details of how I archived my old CDROM media and I did reply in the thread, but never really posted the guide I wrote otherwise.

So here is the crappiest guide to dumping CD/DVD images on Linux/Unix-likes, in case it happens to be of use to anyone.

gist.github.com/mrdaemon/925f1

GistArchiving CDROMs on Linux, A Quick and Dirty GuideArchiving CDROMs on Linux, A Quick and Dirty Guide - imaging.md

When you start getting old, sometimes your memories create weird interference patterns in your vision of current realities. History doesn't repeat, they say, but it sure does echo.

Now that the birdsite has changed all its URLs over to URLs on the x.com domain, I can't see one of those links without thinking of X-COM: UFO DEFENSE, the classic 1994 MicroProse game that ate so VERY many hours of my younger life:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM:_U

#XCOM#Gaming#Vintage