This video shows the prototype of a GNU/Linux controlled CD changer, whose main goal was to burn standard operating system installation CDs (Debian GNU/Linux ) for the Swiss distributor debian.ch (closed down in 2007).
The system was a PC-486/32 MB with an ISA SCSI board, and three SCSI writers and a reader, with a small parallel port board with a Lattice (thanks Julien) doing some register decoding, and three power controllers (for the three motors: rotation, up/down and grip). The motors where from an old Bull printer and a 5.25 floppy disk.
The software was written in Perl
This was used from from 2001 to 2003 in the production of about 600 CD-Rs.
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