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Heh, i ruined someones money making scheme the day i got my first burner and offered copies at the cost of a blank CDR. Somewhat sad that MO media didn't pick
by digi_owl 9y ago
Heh, i ruined someones money making scheme the day i got my first burner and offered copies at the cost of a blank CDR.
Somewhat sad that MO media didn't pick up any steam though, as i kinda miss the day when i could do random RWs on a completely passive media (meaning all the logic lived in a fully replaceable drive).
optical discs don't really do RW in the same way as a floppy, HDD or flash chips, but the latter two have a whole lot of embedded logic stuff that can go sour even if the actual storage media is just fine.
- k__ 9y agoYes, we got some kids later that did this too. First there were a few that used their parents burner. Later some got their own burners and did it for the cost of a blank CDR. The prices of the CDRs dropped too, first I paid like $10 for one and later I got 50 for like $50. Funny thing was, at the beginning the burning was unreliable and the CDRs expensive. Later when they got cheaper the burners also got more reliable.
- astrodust 9y agoThere was a great ceremony when burning in the single-speed days where the hard drive could barely keep up. Vibration, buffer underruns, loud noise, they could all trash your burn. You'd set it, then watch, on the edge of your seat, hoping it'd succeed. Then you'd carefully hand this golden artifact to the next person. Later you'd burn a single PSD on a CD-ROM because it's almost cheaper, faster, and more reliable than printing it out.