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Got a new windows 98 gaming PC, and boi she's huge!! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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I've gotten really interested in old Computers since I got my Commodore PET 2 months ago, so to play some good ol MS Train Simulator and Stronghold 2, I got this massive beauty. Here is a little size comparison between it and my main PC

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[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

3 optical drives? Why?

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If I had to guess:

1 is a dvd drive.

1 is a high speed cd-rom read only drive

1 is a cd-rw drive

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oooo lightscribe!

[–] EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

I still have a spindle of Lightscribe cd's around the house somewhere...

[–] Glowstick@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I had a drive with that feature. I think i used it once. It was way slower than a sharpie

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

Ha! I used it TWICE!

Also, to OP, that definitely wouldn't have come OEM on a PC that shipped with Win 98.

[–] Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 months ago

Seems to me that you are right with that. The top one reads data in lightning speed. The middle drive doesn't seem to work saddly and the last one got a fat DVD logo on it so im guessing thats right

[–] Fredy1422@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

1 3.5" inch Floppy disk drive (720 KB and 1.44 MB)

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That’s not an optical drive friend

[–] Fredy1422@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

for windows 98 technically needs the startup floppy disk to even start the installer

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

Depends which version you have - there is at least one official Win98 release that had a bootable CD.

[–] Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Yes