Disk 08

Appearance

Damn this disk looks like pure shit, like for real though. First of all, it's white, and had been sitting in a box in a basement for I guess the entire duration of Cammy's life, so a couple decades, so it just looks nasty. I'm not putting this in my A drive. I'm scared it'll break it because some of the filth can come off inside of it. I guess I could clean the disk off somehow, but I don't want to because I know what's on it and it's not worth it.

The label is textured, at this point. Like have you ever left paper glued to something until it got kinda fuzzy? You know, because it's falling apart in a very specific way, so the fibers in the paper are losing their tensile strength and breaking off like fuzz on a sweater? I'm actually a huge fan of textile art and I love this texture, but I am positive it will come off in my A drive.

I always label my floppies the other way, like as if the dust cover is the top of the disk, but this company has done it in a way that I consider to be upside down, as if the dust cover is the bottom. The label reads:
"CD-ROM
IDE/ATAPI
DEVICE DRIVER
PART NO: 5421102410
RUN "INSTALL" FROM DOS TO INSTALL
COPYRIGHT TATUNG CO. ALL RIGHT RESERVED."

I have no reason to disbelieve this disk and I don't want to go through the trouble of cleaning it to the point I would feel safe putting it in the drive, so that probably is what it is. An installation disk for a CD-rom drive.

What is kind of wild about that is I come a hair of not putting a disk drive in this computer I built at all (shoutout to my baby brother for his help on this computer- he basically did it). I only have a disk drive because I thought I might want it for retro gaming on the virtual PCs or to get full DVD extras watched, because I still do that sometimes. Like I'll want to watch the commentary track or something. But a lot of people don't have CD or DVD disk drives anymore. They download games from a place like STEAM and watch their movies from streaming services, eliminating the need for a disk drive, and for disks.

Time is a flat circle.

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Drivers for CD-ROM IDE/ATAPI device