Bye bye CDD 461
Philips CDD 461
Today we scrapped our trusty Philips CDD 461 CD drive.
We bought it on 6th August 1992 for 898 DM – an external single speed CD drive (a CD reader only, there weren’t CD writers on the consumer market at that time). Since we stopped using it attached to PCs (many years ago), it has been going strong as a normal CD player in the cellar, where Ruth used it to listen to CDs while sewing and doing the ironing. There was absolutely nothing wrong with it, but we decided it would be useful to have a CD player which can also play MP3s, so after almost 13 years we finally took it to the local dump and put it in the electronics scrap container. I suspect very little of our other computer hardware will make it to such a venerable age in continous service.
