Revisiting My Porn Stash From the Past

I've had a lot of time on my hands since I haven't been going to Fratpad chat lately.     I decided to do some work on my old collection of porn which I had backed up years ago onto ... CD's.    Remember those things?     Years ago when there weren't DVD's (or blueray disks or hard drives with more real estate than Rhode Island or Delaware), we used to back our collections of pictures (!) onto CD's.     And I have hundreds, if not thousands of CD's with assorted images I've acquired from the internet starting back in 1995 when I acquired my first PC - which was a Windows 95 machine that was later UPGRADED to Windows 98.    That machine has long gone and taken with it 1.5 gigs of hard drive space (which is actually still working in a stash I keep just for the hell of it). Technology and software has progressed quite nicely since then - and I still have an operational computer with Windows 2000 that I pulled out just for fun as well. But there was a reason why.... Some of the CD's weren't finalized - they were written with DirectCD which was a brilliant idea (back then, but not so now) where you could move files to a CD like it was a floppy disk and keep adding to that until you finished filling the CD.   Unfortunately some of those CD's were finalized and I can't access them on my PC's and the software that could open those (or finalize the CD's) has fits with Windows recent operating systems.     Talk about asking for a crash like you've never seen before! So I fired up the Windows 2000 machine- my second PC - with a powerful 384 megs of ram and two hard drives that total a whopping 20 gigs of hard drive space between two hard drives.    After spending an hour to remember the password to enter the system, I waited and waited for the computer to go to Windows 2000 desktop.   Did the computer open the CD's?   Hell no!    Yes, the software is there but for some reason it doesn't work anymore (likely I am forgetting how to use it!). As for the hundreds of CD's that I have that I can open, I'm slowly reloading them to a hard drive into files the size of a DVD and burning them all to DVD's.    I managed to turn roughly 80 or so CD's (and their weight) into 12 DVD's and saved a huge amount of space in the closet that I had them stored.    I'm figuring that the total weight I'll save will be 10 stacks of 100 CD's and reduce it to nearly 1 stack of 100 DVD's.    That will make me happy that I won't have to move that again! I'll update you when I have figured out how to finalize those unfinalized CD's once I can get that damn old PC to stay connected to the internet!    I will likely have to download the program I originally used and that should be interesting! UPDATE:  Windows 2000 operating system started to meltdown - had absolutely NO problems with this computer when it was working every day - now that it has been sitting, it gave up the ghost after a few reboots for updates to operating system.     No reason to invest time in the past here anymore - I have found a program that supposedly can read these old CD's - the trial shows the files, but I have to buy to recover.    Been down this road before - trial may show, but buying doesn't guarantee it will recover!    Fooled once before!