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I had a program that came with special CD Labels for the printer where you could make your own cool CD label covers. that was fun.
Or going into a Dreamcast IRC channel to download games and burn them to disk. I think I only ever actually bought like 2 Dreamcast games, Shenmue and Seaman, the rest were just burned to CD-Rs.
“What’s a seedy?”
Me explaining what "Insert Disk 2 of 5" means.
Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools
CDRWIN creating bad discs if you used a pirated key.
I downloaded a 1GB update on my phone today and it took a couple minutes. I spaced out remembering how fucking advanced it felt getting a x2 CD burner.
Then you try to do anything else with that PC while it's writing at 300 KBps and... buffer underrun. So many coasters.
I remember when some company started advertising "BURN-proof" CD-R drives and thinking that was a really dumb phrase, because literally nobody shortened "buffer underrun" to "BURN", and because, you know, "burning" was the entire point of a CD-R drive.
It worked though. Buffer underruns weren't a problem on the later generations of drives. I still never burned at max speed on those though. Felt like asking for trouble to burn a disc at 52x or whatever they maxed out at. At that point it was the difference between 1.5 minutes and 4 minutes or something like that. I was never in that big a rush.
...and for a while it was fairly normal to refer to writing bootable USB sticks as "burning" as well.
Now I don't say that anymore because I don't want to sound like a boomer, or - worse - I don't want people to take me at my word or think I'm just plain mad.
mkisofs . | cdrecord - ?
Fun fact! The Laser in the burner didn't actually burn from thermal effects, and instead caused a chemical reaction using specific wavelengths of light to activate a substrate called pthalocyanine.
This is part of why you could burn "faster", although typically you had a higher quality burn at slower speeds as the change from one color to another via the chemical effects was more complete. This allowed weaker reading lenses to better perceive the new colors easier, and greatly increased compatibility.
I am very, very old.
I am very, very old
Good job !
And thanks for the explanation.
Godamn that's cool
Godamn that's cool
Godamn that's cool.
"Floppy disks" were 8 inches a side in my youth and went in the minicomputer
Then along came Newfangled desktop PCs with their 5.25" floppies
Tom Bombadil remembers first acorn and first rain drop
I used those big floppy disks with some ancient hardware for running physics experiments during university in like 2015-ish, and I'm sure that exact floppy is still in use today. It's not even a small and underfunded university or anything.
Nerd alert!
As the owner of a CD burner so old there was no speed to note, and later upgraded to a 4x burner....
I'm also quite old it seems.
Edited to add: I bought it at a computer show. The kind that you showed up to in person and paid like $5 to get into. I also bought a used laser 128.
Still the best no frills digital audio medium.
Even over the mini disc? Blasphemy!
MD 4 Life
I had to explain what a CD was to my kids the other day because I saw a CD-ROM mirror and decided to get one. We didn't even cover what "burning" one was.
Microwave
I'm going to tell (and show) my kids that's what "burning a CD" was
They will love it
Especially the smell, lol!
I went to a LAN party way back in the 90s, and there was one kid who had a burner. It was back when they could easily fail to burn, so he had a stack of failed burns for us to nuke all night.
postapocalypse looking kinda cozy
Strong Ivan Bilibin vibes (but apparently it's by an another Russian artist, Ernest Lissner).
What I miss most is burning .cue files with hidden tracks; you just don’t get the same high from streaming services.