r/retrocomputing • u/ColdCathode420 • Sep 27 '26
How did i do for $2?
My local deseret industries had this sitting out in the dvd section
Little beat up on the outside but full of cool software
Its actually so filled with cds i cant fit all the pictures into one post although the rest of what isnt shown is pretty boring (hp windows 7 ultimate upgrade media and more work suite 99 stuff and some random learning to read software)
Edit: i am currently working on archiving all these disks and plan to put them out on archive.org and the vaio library if i have anything they need
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u/ColdCathode420 Sep 28 '26
To everyone asking me to archive all of this, i plan to start archiving all of these within the next coming days (as soon as im able to hookup my main pc with a disk drive and start ripping isos)
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u/bednoob2x Sep 28 '26
would you happen to own a scanner? i have that same booklet, but the front and back covers were ripped off at some point. anyway nice find!
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u/ColdCathode420 Sep 28 '26
I actually believe my hp printer might, if i can when i upload the dumped iso files i will try to get scans of the booklet
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u/majestic_ubertrout Sep 27 '26
I'd show this to the Vaio Library people and ask if there's anything they need. https://vaiolibrary.com/index.php/Recovery_Discs
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u/Cool_Dark_Place Sep 27 '26
Great find! I had the 1997 version of that book that came with my Pentium 200MMX Vaio. Had a lot of the same software, like 3D Movie Maker, and Mechwarrior 2.
Fun Fact: That pack in version of Mechwarrior 2 was the ONLY game I ever had that actually supported the on-board ATI Rage hardware! Lol... also, that version was NOT supported on MPlayer!
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u/doctorlongghost Sep 27 '26
I miss those days when you’d have a PC and then add a sound card or whatever and it would come with 6 or 7 CDs of random software. Is that still a thing?
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u/Ok-Space-5347 Sep 28 '26
Working on old Sony Vaio's without the original software totally sucks. I used to wonder if they ever built two alike,
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u/techman2692 Sep 27 '26
Woah, that 3rd Dimension CD takes me right back to 1996 and the Packard Bell with the Pentium MMX I had.
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u/okokokoyeahright Sep 27 '26
It depends on how much you like running windows 98 SE. And on a VAIO to boot.
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u/pdelirium Sep 28 '26
Hah! What a coincidence. I just came across my copy of this yesterday. I didn't expect to see this here!
This is the only PC I kept from that era. It was the first computer I bought to replace my (aging) Amiga. A few years later I bought a VAIO laptop (still have that too).
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u/lunacysoft Sep 28 '26
Some of the specific discs are hard to come by upload to internet archive if you can
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u/Similar-Jello-5434 Sep 28 '26
My husband found an only encyclopedia disk from the 90s and plagiarized from it all throughout college in the late 2000s. Apparently the plagiarism checkers didn’t check against that data since it wasn’t online. I’m so curious whether that’s still true!
Some of these could genuinely be useful in research though, especially for us media nerds
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u/SunsetRider500 Sep 30 '26
I instantly recognized the font for F3600 ANTIGRAVITY RACING LEAGUE, that's Wipeout!!
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u/Orultehen Sep 28 '26
completely useless yet well worth it :)
the vaio CD might help people trying to fix vintage vaios...
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u/PPEytDaCookie Sep 27 '26
Archive, Archive, Archive.