The 75-disc tower! KDS PC Controlled CD Organizer from 2001

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Published 2024-07-12
The KDS PC CD Organizer was first released in 2001 and holds 75 discs of any type! CDs, DVDs, games, software, doesn't matter. Mainly because it relies on your PC for all the smarts and data-related stuff. Still, it's a fascinating optical media storage solution and the motorized innards are just fun to look at!

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00:00 intro to the tower
01:52 VGP-XL1B
02:52 KDS things
04:46 unboxing
09:50 testing
17:04 picking discs
19:19 cataloguing discs
22:51 How To Computers
24:36 inside the tower
26:33 outroduction

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All Comments (21)
  • @Zulf85
    I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned it, but as someone who is partially deaf I want to thank you for always including captions with your videos! It's a lot of work to get something like that going even when outsourced, but I can say it does pay off for your viewers.
  • @Grimm-Gaming
    Finally somewhere to keep track of all your AOL trial disc's that you didn't already try throwing against a wall!
  • @elen5871
    i can't believe I've been watching this channel for like 15 years and its still so damn good.
  • @ScottGrammer
    One day in the distant future, LGR will post a video, saying, "Sorry, but it appears that I have featured every single odd piece of computer tech ever made. I'll be retiring now, thanks for watching."
  • Hey did you see that CD organizer thing they release... OH GOD THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
  • @travisd05
    We need to crowdsource finding 126 more of these to send in so we can see the beauty of having 127 all hooked together!
  • @michiganmafia
    Man imagine if that thing died on you, and you had to take it apart to get back your 75 discs
  • @karasutengu3
    I could totally see a library investing in a set of these to be able to control the discs by the librarian but still put the cases out so people can look at the boxes and bring them to the counter.
  • @bravo320zf
    The idea of having something like this in the library sounds pretty cool. Like an early 2000's self checkout for movies. Lol
  • @JackOrtner
    Did my dad own TWELVE of the similar DC-300 Media Carousels to store over 1,000 burned Netflix DVDs? Not saying he did, but let's just say that the lending aspect of this software actually DID come in handy when you're the neighborhood Blockbuster! Good memories.
  • @Brogel
    "Bi Fi" is a range of meat-based snack products, mainly thin salami-style sausages. Mascot is a deranged sausage with arms and legs. The more you know!
  • @BVoris6977
    One of my employers had a system similar to this back in the early 2000's. Used it for disc sharing, and access controls. It was for a civil engineering company that used discs from city, county, and state for embedding in CAD and Microstation drawings. We also tested a similar lending feature between offices to keep track of where a CD went and who had it. We used it for about 2 years. It was later repurposed as a Windows 2003 file server for disc images.
  • @FlosVintech
    Thank you for the CD organizer video and I am glad it got some use. By the way the German floppy disk game is pronounced "bee fee". Hope you enjoy it. Keep up with the videos, my hubby and myself enjoy them very much. Have a great day.
  • @benespection
    So happy to see a shout out to @CathodeRayDude - that's an excellent channel that has been under the radar for too long!
  • @morlamweb
    I worked with and supported 100/200/600 CD and DVD jukeboxes from JVC earlier in my career. They had read/write drives built in, were SCSI-attached, and generally meant for data center use before HDD storage became a cheap commodity. They broke down frequently and were a giant pain to use. My company dropped support for them ~15 years ago and I don't miss them one bit. I heard that JVC did release a BD version of their Jukeboxes, but I didn't care about their crappy products by that point, so I can't confirm.
  • This looks like a nightmare for pressed discs but a godsend for burned discs
  • @Scotian280
    I’m a photographer and would have loved this 20 years ago. I had my media backed up on festoons of CDRs and put in big CD albums which were clumbsy to get out and find CDs when I needed. This is perfect for someone who is backing up data that they want irregular access to from time to time. MY CDRs would be in this machine with that list making it easier for me to find the year of my backup and eject the CD for me to plop in the computer to access it. So I wouldn’t have lots of jewel cases displaced, this would be perfect for my needs back them.
  • @dcflake5645
    We've got the biggest and best product ever! We've sunk a lot of money into marketing and promise you September 11th 2001 this CD tower will be all you remember about that date! - KDS CEO
  • @Nukle0n
    14:10 I love the description of VCDs " VCD - Video CDs popular in the Far East, Essentially data files"