This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    11 days ago

    I remember the moment I realised my fancy new Walkman could read data CD-Rs and I could fit all my mp3s into one 700mb disc. I felt insane, majestic, limitless.

    • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Then you’d get a copy protected disc that wouldn’t play at all in the disc man, but you could copy it to a CD-R and that’d play just fine. To disable the copy protection you just hold shift while the cd tray closes.

    • devfuuu@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 days ago

      I ended up even buying some rewritable mini discs because they were so much smaller and still good enough space for some mp3 files.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Oh boy. I remember seeing an 8 track system once… I was very curious, and honestly, I still don’t have any of the answers I wanted. They’re just no longer relevant. The tech was old when I was a kid.

        I used dial up, so anything that’s post-Internet, I’m probably older than. I still remember the idiot news anchors going “move over Internet, here comes the world wide Web”… They’re literally the same thing. What the fuck are you talking about?

      • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 days ago

        I grew up with a Bally Astrocade from birth. My dad had bought the tape peripheral, but I don’t think he knew what the hell to do with it. Just sat in the box.

        We had dozens of cartridges for it though. I think he just liked buying new tech, because I never saw him playing it.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    11·
    10 days ago

    I remember my first written CD. You put the CD into a transfer case and slide it into a large box. Shortly after, the empty transfer case comes back out. You have already prepared your CD image, not as a project or file, no, you had to prepare it as an image on its own partition, on a disk that did not host anything else.

    Then you shutdown your computer, and reboot it basically into the burn program, which then tries to move the data fast enough from the disk partition to the CD burner. The speed, of course, was 1x, so this write operation could last an hour and a quarter.

    Then, your computer reboots back into the OS. You put the empty transfer case into the writer, and after some time, it comes back out with the media. And now you can finally put in into a reader and read it and compare it to the data on that partition. Knock on wood, or whatever. Because about half the writes failed, and the media cost a fortune.

    • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
      5·
      10 days ago

      I let you front runners play with 1x and got a 2x with support for CD-RW, and because of it’s buffer it only trashed the expensive CD-R’s like 1/4 of the time. And I could use the computer a little if I dared!

  • voodooattack@lemmy.world
    9·
    10 days ago

    Old enough to remember using a 3½” floppy disk to boot my first PC and mess around with GW/Q-BASIC and play DOS games.

    The disks were strongly perfumed (I guess the guy I bought my pirated games from liked to do that for some reason), and I still remember that aroma.

  • ansiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 days ago

    It was great to go to college at a time when Napster and IRC rooms were in prime time, combined with a T1 fiber connection and University IT was too primitive to do anything to monitor or stop the behavior.

  • maz1@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 days ago

    The only thing this meme is missing are the Wendy’s napkins in the glovebox of my 1991 Pontiac Sunbird that I give my ex-girlfriend to blot her eyes after this latest mix cd is finally the one to blow her fucking mind

  • Emerald@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 days ago

    This isn’t very old lol. That computer could be from 2010 and CD’s and Sharpies were used then. Also, LimeWire was functional until like late 2010.

        • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 days ago

          Kind of a joke few would get. For a period of time in the late 80’s into the early 90’s it was very hard to get a german made VCR. Odering them straight from there wasn’t really a option. You could only get them at high cost unless you knew someone in the military over there. They would go to the local PX, buy one and ship it home. It was good way to make really good quality copies.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    6·
    11 days ago

    I’m old enough to remember when computers didn’t even require a hard drive, they could just boot right into Basic from ROM.