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Currently Playing: Make a CD-ROM drive become a CD-Recorder (April Fools!) [#TPCXmas24 Part 16] #DOScember

Here's TPC's video Advent Calendar 2024, revealing door No. 16 for December 16th: German magazine "PC Praxis" published a pseudo-scientific article in April 2000, claiming that by means of DOS tool called LIRPA (April in reverse), you could transform a CD-ROM drive into a CD-Recorder. Well, of course, that was an April Fools! I tripped over this when doing another research and then remembered, that I have a funny anecdote to share myself about this... To support TPC, check out all my options on https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuela Stutz @alishamanuelastutz David Schell @TheMinocula Christian Zerrahn @JARVIS1187 Waseem al sammane @wsammane THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: HMK @hmichaelkraut7968 John DiLiberto @JohnMDiLiberto Jack Rosenthal @JackRosenthal1 Matthew Veety @MatthewVeety MS-DOS Manfred @msdosm4nfred Steven Glogger @sglogger xcalibur839 @xcalibur839 Links: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Praxis https://web.archive.org/web/20020601033044/http://pcpraxis-networld.de/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-RW https://www.powerforen.de/thema/suche-das-prog-lirpa.33147/ https://nickles.de/forum/dvd-cd-brenner/2000/cd-rom-als-brenner-124074.html https://www.rivastation.de/forum/index.php?topic=5754.0;prev_next=prev Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://phintage.phunsites.net for insights into my retro computer collection. Copyright @ 2024 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Theme Music composed by Abdallah El-Ghannam. https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam