Probably, but not even remotely worth the cost of doing so, especially in the insanely cut-throat hard drive market. Remember we've lost some good players in recent years simply because they didn't cut costs far enough and were undersold to the point where they caved in.
1) They won't sell you the logic boards. Ever. Or the connectors. Or any other parts other than a complete drive. As someone further up stated, each batch has slight firmware revisions between them that could make a board from batch A not work on a drive from batch B. The other part of this equation is that before leaving the factory, each drive/board pair is individually tuned when the servo control data is written on the platters (I'd draw you a diagram but it's a bit difficult in text).
When this happens the entire platter surface is scanned and any imperfections are mapped out and stored in the servo control chip. Every drive out there ships with a small amount of imperfections on the surface of the platters and this is how they are accounted for. When you swap boards from drive to drive, even with the same firmware, you could run into the problem that essential data from one drive is stored in an area marked as a unusable sector on the other drive.
2) Asking about this and pressing the question is a really quick way to get your account on their call tracking system flagged that you void your drives' warranties and make any future dealings with them VERY difficult. Trust me, the techs don't like to talk to people with account warnings on, and they can and will skim your old calls when you call in.
This is from the perspective of someone who worked support for a major HD manufacturer for quite a while. If you care about the data on your failed drive at ALL, send it out for professional data recovery. Otherwise, be willing to accept the risk that you yourself may destroy all of your data. The other thing I would say to do is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS make either daily backups or mirror your most important data. Getting an external backup drive like one of the Maxtor external HD's that do autobackups or setting up a simple RAID 0 is not that expensive compared to losing your data.
Anywya that's my $.02 on the subject. If you want the full $1.00, email me (and make the subject stand out so I can easily sort it out of the spam).
Heh...this was back when the HD manufacturing was done at Rochester, MN and before they farmed it out all outsourced and in the far east. Not saying that people out there can't make quality products also, but it was the culture of constantly trying to cut costs and corners to boost profits that led to the huge problems.
*shrug* I just brought it out since it IS relevant. Why do people want management positions? Generally because of the extra money and power that come with them. I'm making a point that I've decided those things don't really matter to my definition of success in response to those who seem to feel that everybody would obviously want the money and power associated with these positions.
So in the end it IS relevant although in a bit roundabout way;)
I once had a manager like this. Was the best job I EVER had and probably ever will have. She did exactly that - kept upper management out of our hair, took care of the paperwork, went to meetings, and let us do our jobs how we knew they needed to be done. She asked for our input constantly on policy and purchasing decisions, making sure our input was taken seriously in the final outcome.
Well that's fine, but you must realize that you're using your own personal definition of greatness and success. I don't doubt at all your point about some of the greatest engineering miracles being chiefly the results of the project managers. However, I don't define success that way. Sure, I'd be extremely happy to lead or be a part of a team that does something great like that. But to me, success really means having food every day, a great wife, a nice house, food on the table, even a few pets, and doing something I love for a living. I don't need great works or projects to feel successful, and I worked a long time to get rid of the constant drive to climb up whatever social or corporate ladder I find myself on the rungs of. To me, the real stuff of life is all the things you do outside your job, and doing something I love for a living gives me an extra measure of energy to pursue those other life interests that a management position would suck out of me.
On the contrary, I've stopped worrying about "putting food on the table". I decided that I'm going to do things that I love to make a living and just have confidence that it'll all work out in the end. I'm not looking to get rich like most people seem to be, I just want a comfortable life doing things that I love. I know too many people who got into a career track because it offered the promise of plenty of money. And now they hate their jobs and wish desperately they could go back to school to do something they love, but they and their families are now slaves to that extra income, so they're stuck. Me, I don't want to ever have to be in that position. So I made a choice to pursue a career doing things that I love. Sure I may have to take other jobs now and then to make ends meet, but the only really long term positions I'll take are positions that will make me happy.
Sure, it's a rather non-average outlook on life, but it's kept me quite happy, and happiness is something I value more than even money.
If growing up is being involved in corporate politics and endless meetings, then I want absolutely no part of it. I'm very happy being a geek/techie and working on technical things. All of the real geeks I've known that accepted a management position did so because of the bigger paycheck, and all of them ended up slowly but surely becoming corporate slaves who were disconnected with their employees and the real work of the department.
I wasn't implying that I have to belong to a certain clique at all, or even have the need to be labeled as a geek. You could call yourself a flaming queer for all I care. What I'm saying is that a lot of these people lose their happiness as they're moved away from doing the things they love and toward bickering and politics and increased unhappiness, all in the name of a bigger paycheck and more power.
My official advice for all of you is to refuse the management position. I realize that with management comes more money and more influence/power, but I've seen FAR too many good geeks, engineers, techies, etc. go to management to die. They cease being involved in the actual work of their department and progress more and more deeply into politics, paperwork, and meetings. Every one of them has moved gradually away from being a geek with a management position and more and more toward just being a manager who used to be a geek.
Remember this: Management is where geeks go to die.
I HIGHLY agree with this post. While not a photographer myself at all, I've spent a large amount of time hanging around with a friend of mine who is a medical photographer. He shoots almost everything on slide film and makes slides of it, then scans it with the exact FUJI scanner you mentioned. I once asked him why he had that massive "hunk of junk" so he showed me the results he gets from other systems he had sitting around there. Face it, there was no comparison at all. Every last one of the other systems, even his "whoopty doo" Canon fancy shmancy do everything and then some scanner put out vastly inferior results.
So sorry to break it to ya, but you need to get better hardware.
As I said in I believe a different post, that involved a HUGE project of setting up protected rail corridors. The skyweb doesn't need a protected corridor just so it doesn't have to stop at lights. And I believe a big part of the Hiawatha LRT's success is that it's the only thing around and it's faster than the bus. If there was a choice between that and the skyweb rest assured I'd ride the skyweb every time so I would have a direct trip.
Very interesting, I hadn't run into that before. Honestly I think the skyweb is more likely to come into widespread use. The RUF would require everybody to buy a new CAR just to be able to use it, whereas the skyweb would undoubtedly have large ramps at the endpoint stations that one could park at and ride in, a la park & ride. But I definitely think the RUF is a cool idea:)
From what I remember of the talk I went to, they've done a HUGE amount of logical testing on the design. I believe they made a giant simulation of a stadium in a large city (Cincinnatti? it was an actual town, that's all I really remember) and simulated a ball game letting out. They found out that the system could actually empty the stadium in less than HALF of the time it took regular cars to do so, with none of the regular road congestion associated with it.
Some of what you're thinking of also has to do with waiting for the train. Granted that would be unavoidable at some times but the cars would be automatically routed to where the largest numbers of requests are made each day according to past use. Therefore if downtown needs more cars at say 4:45, they would alreayd be there, lined up and waiting.
I'll admit I don't know everything about the system but I distinctly remember thinking that the guys who are making it had really done their homework.
I can answer at least some of these questions. I went to a big IEEE presentation about half a year ago where the chief engineer from this company did a big spiel on the system.
A) I believe a camera would be installed in the cars, but I don't know all that much more about that part.
B) Homeless people wouldn't live there - you have to pay to get IN to the pod, then it travels to the destination you tell it, then it opens at the station to let you out and won't go anywhere until you leave. Now you could just set the pod to do a long distance but from what I understand the fare system would be distance-based. So homeless people would doubtfully have the money necessary to use one for any length of time.
C) The likelihood of any one car breaking down between stations is extremely slim. The drivetrain is a dual induction motor and I believe it also has an onboard battery pack in case power to the track gets cut. If one motor goes out the other one takes over. If both motors go out or something horrible like that, the central computer knows where it is and instructs the car behind it to enter "push mode" and push the car to the next available station so the occupants can get out and receive a new pod.
As far as actual evacuation from the pod mid-trip, I honestly don't know. That wasn't something we really covered at the presentation, it was more about the technology and logistics of the system as a whole.
There were a bunch of reasons they didn't implement it in Minneapolis, probably the biggest of which is that SkyWeb had yet to build a test track - at that point it was only a design. Also there as a big group that REALLY wanted a light rail train like they have now, and they were very very loud about it.
The problems now are that the train is still SLOW because it has to stop for stoplights and it only benifits those businesses that are within a short walking distance of the line. Light rail is SO expensive to install that they can only make a very small number of stations, which limits the usefulness of the system as a whole. And with a shared train architecture like that, if you install a large number of stations your overall speed plummets so low people won't ride it since the whole train and everyone on it has to stop at every single station.
That's where the SkyWeb differs greatly from other concepts: your "train" only houses you and the people riding with you. And it won't stop at ANY stations other than the one you get on and the one you get off. Personally I think it's a brilliant concept and MSP missed out on it bigtime.
I actually went to a presentation put on by IEEE in which the chief inventor guy for the project did a big talk and spiel on this exact system. The major problem with buses is that, from a practical perspective, they're slower than my ass getting out of bed in the morning. Sure they may be ABLE to travel at 55 mph, but they never DO. If, as you suggested, they stop at every single block, then their average speed slows to almost zero.
On the practical side, people only want to ride transportation that's convenient and relatively fast. While the buses ARE relatively convenient, they're definitely NOT fast, especially for traveling any decent length.
What the skyweb does is about halfway between bus, taxi, and subway/monorail. It has stations and set track routes, like monorails and subways, but unlike them the skyweb requires only the footprint of a telephone-pole size support to put up (so no massive "rail corridors that need to be cleared), the cost of putting the tracks and stations up is a small fraction of the cost for a monorail/subway, and each individual trip is a point to point trip with no stops in the middle. This makes it: a) Much cheaper and easier to install/build than subways b) Fast like a taxi without the traffic congestion and smoking, swearing drivers c) Also quick to put up, since the track is very simple and small
The other big advantage of this system is that all of the cars are controlled by a central traffic computer. This keeps them all at the ideal speed and spacing to avoid traffic jams, accidents, and other things that make regular roadways so frequently clogged.
I hope I've been clear and understandable. The system is pretty amazing from what I saw, I really hope they're able to get it off the ground (haha) soon!
Hey Patrick, if you get this (in the pile of other well-wishers) and were thinking about coming to the Mayo Clinic as mentioned somewhere below this, let me know and I can arrange for a place for you to stay here. Hope you keep on the up track!
Hey I live in Rochester, about 5 blocks from the main Mayo building (you can hardly PARK any closer than that!). Patrick, if you're reading this and thinking about coming here, let me know and I can offer you a place to stay while you're here. My email's on here if you want, spamproofed, write an easily identifiable subject so I don't miss it in the spam;)
And another amen! I have nothing wrong with the catholic faith, as such. But I DO have a problem with the fact that the catholic church's power structure is headed by ONE MAN who can basically lead them wherever he feels with some hand waving and a few convincing speeches heavy with "sins" and "holiness".
After all, where does the bible mention the Pope? The closest thing they had was the gatherings at Jerusalem which, AFAIK, was a gathering of all local church leaders from the area. But that was also back when the church was really two separate parts - the converted jews and the converted gentiles. The councils at Jerusalem were composed I believe of the converted Jews only. The gentiles (who all of us would be considered part of) were, at least at first, only grudgingly accepted by the converted Jews.
Alright somebody stop me I'm giving a lecture again...at 3 AM...argh! So mod me off topic, email me if ya wanna discuss it more:P
LOL amen to that man, mind if I join ya? I'll even bring home baked bread, much tastier than that cracker crap!
Somehow I'm reminded of the little girl who was gluten intolerant...for first communion she was given a gluten-free wafer, then shortly after the catholic church decided that her communion was invalid because it wasn't a wheat wafer. What a load of horseshit...
Oh yeah and I prefer grape juice, that wine crap they use tastes like cough syrup mixed with motor oil.
Now here's a post I can support:D Star Control 2 ate up over 2 years of my life. Still one of the best games ever made PERIOD. Great soundtrack with MODs, cool sound effects, and all from an original sound blaster card! I ran it for years on my parents' 386 PS/2 and I don't think I've ever really had more fun with a game. The replayability was very high, and I especially loved scavenging for minerals. But then again, I'm weird;)
Same here. I never owned a PS1 at all but that was a HUGE part of my deicison to get a PS2. I wanted some games from the PS2 *coughfinalfantasyXcough* but I loved the fact that I could go back and play all these PS1 games that I missed. Several of my friends have huge PS1 libraries so it was heaven for me to go through and experience all this stuff I previously wished I could play.
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Probably, but not even remotely worth the cost of doing so, especially in the insanely cut-throat hard drive market. Remember we've lost some good players in recent years simply because they didn't cut costs far enough and were undersold to the point where they caved in.
Yeep...yer right...it was farkin late and I apparently had some wires touching upstairs. Ok so I'm a moron, make that RAID 1.
;)
There, that's my mistake for the week
1) They won't sell you the logic boards. Ever. Or the connectors. Or any other parts other than a complete drive. As someone further up stated, each batch has slight firmware revisions between them that could make a board from batch A not work on a drive from batch B. The other part of this equation is that before leaving the factory, each drive/board pair is individually tuned when the servo control data is written on the platters (I'd draw you a diagram but it's a bit difficult in text).
When this happens the entire platter surface is scanned and any imperfections are mapped out and stored in the servo control chip. Every drive out there ships with a small amount of imperfections on the surface of the platters and this is how they are accounted for. When you swap boards from drive to drive, even with the same firmware, you could run into the problem that essential data from one drive is stored in an area marked as a unusable sector on the other drive.
2) Asking about this and pressing the question is a really quick way to get your account on their call tracking system flagged that you void your drives' warranties and make any future dealings with them VERY difficult. Trust me, the techs don't like to talk to people with account warnings on, and they can and will skim your old calls when you call in.
This is from the perspective of someone who worked support for a major HD manufacturer for quite a while. If you care about the data on your failed drive at ALL, send it out for professional data recovery. Otherwise, be willing to accept the risk that you yourself may destroy all of your data. The other thing I would say to do is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS make either daily backups or mirror your most important data. Getting an external backup drive like one of the Maxtor external HD's that do autobackups or setting up a simple RAID 0 is not that expensive compared to losing your data.
Anywya that's my $.02 on the subject. If you want the full $1.00, email me (and make the subject stand out so I can easily sort it out of the spam).
Heh...this was back when the HD manufacturing was done at Rochester, MN and before they farmed it out all outsourced and in the far east. Not saying that people out there can't make quality products also, but it was the culture of constantly trying to cut costs and corners to boost profits that led to the huge problems.
My god you must be psychic, that's what I did as a kid on the farm...
:( (pun fully intended...)
Didn't get shit for pay though
Yes much, why do you ask? :)
*shrug* I just brought it out since it IS relevant. Why do people want management positions? Generally because of the extra money and power that come with them. I'm making a point that I've decided those things don't really matter to my definition of success in response to those who seem to feel that everybody would obviously want the money and power associated with these positions.
;)
So in the end it IS relevant although in a bit roundabout way
I once had a manager like this. Was the best job I EVER had and probably ever will have. She did exactly that - kept upper management out of our hair, took care of the paperwork, went to meetings, and let us do our jobs how we knew they needed to be done. She asked for our input constantly on policy and purchasing decisions, making sure our input was taken seriously in the final outcome.
Man I miss that job...
Well that's fine, but you must realize that you're using your own personal definition of greatness and success. I don't doubt at all your point about some of the greatest engineering miracles being chiefly the results of the project managers. However, I don't define success that way. Sure, I'd be extremely happy to lead or be a part of a team that does something great like that. But to me, success really means having food every day, a great wife, a nice house, food on the table, even a few pets, and doing something I love for a living. I don't need great works or projects to feel successful, and I worked a long time to get rid of the constant drive to climb up whatever social or corporate ladder I find myself on the rungs of. To me, the real stuff of life is all the things you do outside your job, and doing something I love for a living gives me an extra measure of energy to pursue those other life interests that a management position would suck out of me.
On the contrary, I've stopped worrying about "putting food on the table". I decided that I'm going to do things that I love to make a living and just have confidence that it'll all work out in the end. I'm not looking to get rich like most people seem to be, I just want a comfortable life doing things that I love. I know too many people who got into a career track because it offered the promise of plenty of money. And now they hate their jobs and wish desperately they could go back to school to do something they love, but they and their families are now slaves to that extra income, so they're stuck. Me, I don't want to ever have to be in that position. So I made a choice to pursue a career doing things that I love. Sure I may have to take other jobs now and then to make ends meet, but the only really long term positions I'll take are positions that will make me happy.
Sure, it's a rather non-average outlook on life, but it's kept me quite happy, and happiness is something I value more than even money.
If growing up is being involved in corporate politics and endless meetings, then I want absolutely no part of it. I'm very happy being a geek/techie and working on technical things. All of the real geeks I've known that accepted a management position did so because of the bigger paycheck, and all of them ended up slowly but surely becoming corporate slaves who were disconnected with their employees and the real work of the department.
I wasn't implying that I have to belong to a certain clique at all, or even have the need to be labeled as a geek. You could call yourself a flaming queer for all I care. What I'm saying is that a lot of these people lose their happiness as they're moved away from doing the things they love and toward bickering and politics and increased unhappiness, all in the name of a bigger paycheck and more power.
My official advice for all of you is to refuse the management position. I realize that with management comes more money and more influence/power, but I've seen FAR too many good geeks, engineers, techies, etc. go to management to die. They cease being involved in the actual work of their department and progress more and more deeply into politics, paperwork, and meetings. Every one of them has moved gradually away from being a geek with a management position and more and more toward just being a manager who used to be a geek.
Remember this: Management is where geeks go to die.
I HIGHLY agree with this post. While not a photographer myself at all, I've spent a large amount of time hanging around with a friend of mine who is a medical photographer. He shoots almost everything on slide film and makes slides of it, then scans it with the exact FUJI scanner you mentioned. I once asked him why he had that massive "hunk of junk" so he showed me the results he gets from other systems he had sitting around there. Face it, there was no comparison at all. Every last one of the other systems, even his "whoopty doo" Canon fancy shmancy do everything and then some scanner put out vastly inferior results.
So sorry to break it to ya, but you need to get better hardware.
As I said in I believe a different post, that involved a HUGE project of setting up protected rail corridors. The skyweb doesn't need a protected corridor just so it doesn't have to stop at lights. And I believe a big part of the Hiawatha LRT's success is that it's the only thing around and it's faster than the bus. If there was a choice between that and the skyweb rest assured I'd ride the skyweb every time so I would have a direct trip.
Very interesting, I hadn't run into that before. Honestly I think the skyweb is more likely to come into widespread use. The RUF would require everybody to buy a new CAR just to be able to use it, whereas the skyweb would undoubtedly have large ramps at the endpoint stations that one could park at and ride in, a la park & ride. But I definitely think the RUF is a cool idea :)
From what I remember of the talk I went to, they've done a HUGE amount of logical testing on the design. I believe they made a giant simulation of a stadium in a large city (Cincinnatti? it was an actual town, that's all I really remember) and simulated a ball game letting out. They found out that the system could actually empty the stadium in less than HALF of the time it took regular cars to do so, with none of the regular road congestion associated with it.
Some of what you're thinking of also has to do with waiting for the train. Granted that would be unavoidable at some times but the cars would be automatically routed to where the largest numbers of requests are made each day according to past use. Therefore if downtown needs more cars at say 4:45, they would alreayd be there, lined up and waiting.
I'll admit I don't know everything about the system but I distinctly remember thinking that the guys who are making it had really done their homework.
I can answer at least some of these questions. I went to a big IEEE presentation about half a year ago where the chief engineer from this company did a big spiel on the system.
:)
A) I believe a camera would be installed in the cars, but I don't know all that much more about that part.
B) Homeless people wouldn't live there - you have to pay to get IN to the pod, then it travels to the destination you tell it, then it opens at the station to let you out and won't go anywhere until you leave. Now you could just set the pod to do a long distance but from what I understand the fare system would be distance-based. So homeless people would doubtfully have the money necessary to use one for any length of time.
C) The likelihood of any one car breaking down between stations is extremely slim. The drivetrain is a dual induction motor and I believe it also has an onboard battery pack in case power to the track gets cut. If one motor goes out the other one takes over. If both motors go out or something horrible like that, the central computer knows where it is and instructs the car behind it to enter "push mode" and push the car to the next available station so the occupants can get out and receive a new pod.
As far as actual evacuation from the pod mid-trip, I honestly don't know. That wasn't something we really covered at the presentation, it was more about the technology and logistics of the system as a whole.
Hope I made some version of sense
There were a bunch of reasons they didn't implement it in Minneapolis, probably the biggest of which is that SkyWeb had yet to build a test track - at that point it was only a design. Also there as a big group that REALLY wanted a light rail train like they have now, and they were very very loud about it.
The problems now are that the train is still SLOW because it has to stop for stoplights and it only benifits those businesses that are within a short walking distance of the line. Light rail is SO expensive to install that they can only make a very small number of stations, which limits the usefulness of the system as a whole. And with a shared train architecture like that, if you install a large number of stations your overall speed plummets so low people won't ride it since the whole train and everyone on it has to stop at every single station.
That's where the SkyWeb differs greatly from other concepts: your "train" only houses you and the people riding with you. And it won't stop at ANY stations other than the one you get on and the one you get off. Personally I think it's a brilliant concept and MSP missed out on it bigtime.
I actually went to a presentation put on by IEEE in which the chief inventor guy for the project did a big talk and spiel on this exact system. The major problem with buses is that, from a practical perspective, they're slower than my ass getting out of bed in the morning. Sure they may be ABLE to travel at 55 mph, but they never DO. If, as you suggested, they stop at every single block, then their average speed slows to almost zero.
On the practical side, people only want to ride transportation that's convenient and relatively fast. While the buses ARE relatively convenient, they're definitely NOT fast, especially for traveling any decent length.
What the skyweb does is about halfway between bus, taxi, and subway/monorail. It has stations and set track routes, like monorails and subways, but unlike them the skyweb requires only the footprint of a telephone-pole size support to put up (so no massive "rail corridors that need to be cleared), the cost of putting the tracks and stations up is a small fraction of the cost for a monorail/subway, and each individual trip is a point to point trip with no stops in the middle. This makes it:
a) Much cheaper and easier to install/build than subways
b) Fast like a taxi without the traffic congestion and smoking, swearing drivers
c) Also quick to put up, since the track is very simple and small
The other big advantage of this system is that all of the cars are controlled by a central traffic computer. This keeps them all at the ideal speed and spacing to avoid traffic jams, accidents, and other things that make regular roadways so frequently clogged.
I hope I've been clear and understandable. The system is pretty amazing from what I saw, I really hope they're able to get it off the ground (haha) soon!
Hey Patrick, if you get this (in the pile of other well-wishers) and were thinking about coming to the Mayo Clinic as mentioned somewhere below this, let me know and I can arrange for a place for you to stay here. Hope you keep on the up track!
Hey I live in Rochester, about 5 blocks from the main Mayo building (you can hardly PARK any closer than that!). Patrick, if you're reading this and thinking about coming here, let me know and I can offer you a place to stay while you're here. My email's on here if you want, spamproofed, write an easily identifiable subject so I don't miss it in the spam ;)
And another amen! I have nothing wrong with the catholic faith, as such. But I DO have a problem with the fact that the catholic church's power structure is headed by ONE MAN who can basically lead them wherever he feels with some hand waving and a few convincing speeches heavy with "sins" and "holiness".
:P
After all, where does the bible mention the Pope? The closest thing they had was the gatherings at Jerusalem which, AFAIK, was a gathering of all local church leaders from the area. But that was also back when the church was really two separate parts - the converted jews and the converted gentiles. The councils at Jerusalem were composed I believe of the converted Jews only. The gentiles (who all of us would be considered part of) were, at least at first, only grudgingly accepted by the converted Jews.
Alright somebody stop me I'm giving a lecture again...at 3 AM...argh! So mod me off topic, email me if ya wanna discuss it more
LOL amen to that man, mind if I join ya? I'll even bring home baked bread, much tastier than that cracker crap!
Somehow I'm reminded of the little girl who was gluten intolerant...for first communion she was given a gluten-free wafer, then shortly after the catholic church decided that her communion was invalid because it wasn't a wheat wafer. What a load of horseshit...
Oh yeah and I prefer grape juice, that wine crap they use tastes like cough syrup mixed with motor oil.
Now here's a post I can support :D Star Control 2 ate up over 2 years of my life. Still one of the best games ever made PERIOD. Great soundtrack with MODs, cool sound effects, and all from an original sound blaster card! I ran it for years on my parents' 386 PS/2 and I don't think I've ever really had more fun with a game. The replayability was very high, and I especially loved scavenging for minerals. But then again, I'm weird ;)
Same here. I never owned a PS1 at all but that was a HUGE part of my deicison to get a PS2. I wanted some games from the PS2 *coughfinalfantasyXcough* but I loved the fact that I could go back and play all these PS1 games that I missed. Several of my friends have huge PS1 libraries so it was heaven for me to go through and experience all this stuff I previously wished I could play.