The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
How geeks rock their baby to sleep
The video says it all.
First CD tray I've ever seen on its side . . . wouldn't the CD fall out?
CD trays designed to work sideways like that generally have a pair of little flip-out tabs at the edges of the CD depression, to hold the CD in place then the tray opens. :)
Take a look at your desktop CD drive... there are flip out 'holders' that keep the disk from falling out. Very few CD/DVD tray based drives don't have them.
skreidle is basically right, except that the drives are usually designed to work either way.
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CD trays designed to work sideways like that generally have a pair of little flip-out tabs at the edges of the CD depression, to hold the CD in place then the tray opens. :)
Take a look at your desktop CD drive... there are flip out 'holders' that keep the disk from falling out. Very few CD/DVD tray based drives don't have them.
skreidle is basically right, except that the drives are usually designed to work either way.
I'd be more worried the extra weight the motor of the drive has to deal with on each reinsertion of the tray is going to damage the drive.
Archie
Archie,
I think I'd call this more of a "geeky proof of concept" than a "practical baby rocker". :)
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