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I guess you weren't alive back then because.... no, no they weren't, this never happened.

• driverdan 8y ago
  You don't know what you're talking about. I had one of these types of CD drives in my first decent computer. It used special cases with a spring loaded cover that opened when you inserted it into the drive.
  • jamesrcole 8y ago
    I know what you're referring to, but I think you're talking about something different to the grandparent. They said "The first CD players let you stick the disk in with case and all. You would never get a scratch" which implies something where you never take the disc out of its case, because unless you never take it out of the case how does it avoid all scratches?
    • forinti 8y ago
      The case could very well have been the caddy. There wasn't a practical reason to have both; it was a design decision.
      • jamesrcole 8y ago
        I don't think there was a caddy for every single CD. My recollection was that you had a single caddy for the drive and swapped discs in and out of it. So I don't see how the caddies made much practical difference for stopping CDs from getting scratched.
        • driverdan 8y ago
          It depends on the user. We had caddies for almost every CD we regularly used.
  • nakedrobot2 8y ago
    that was a CD-ROM, not an audio CD