Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...

Frontiers Of The Mind is cursed, by which I mean that 7-Zip turned red while I was extracting the file. What unsightly encounter deep within the bowels of my download file caused this temporary ...

In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted. At the time, it was the CD-ROM that had captured the imagination of ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. The Internet Archive keeps the record straight by preserving government websites, news publications, historical documents, and more. If you find ...

If you cannot install the VMware Tools on the guest operating system running on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 host machine because the Install VMware Tools option is grayed out, then this post offers ...

Today, tech archivist Jason Scott announced a new website called Discmaster that lets anyone search through 91.7 million vintage computer files pulled from CD-ROM releases and floppy disks. The files ...

So a friend of mine in the DJ industry acquired a competing DJ company in his area and is now in possession of at least 15,000 - 20,000 CDs in their collection. He has already started an ALAC rip of ...