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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

I kinda miss the beefy boys that came with detachable USB cables and their own power supplies.

I had an external SCSI CD-ROM drive that used caddies and had physical buttons on it, I used it for a long time as a CD player. It ran off 120.