My first ever CD burner was a external SCSI drive. So that computer ended up having 3 drives, but realistically we only ever used 2: one for music, one for a pr

My first ever CD burner was a external SCSI drive. So that computer ended up having 3 drives, but realistically we only ever used 2: one for music, one for a program usually. We didn't rip the music because a) it took forever back then to encode to mp3, and b) we didn't have enough HDD space! I remember when we were trying to burn CDs, about 1/4 of the time it failed. I pointed out that we didn't have a SCSI terminator on the other slot, but my dad insisted what difference could that possibly make? And to be honest, at the time (I must have been between 8-10 at this point), I couldn't really disagree with him. It was just this chunk of plastic that plugged into the port, it looked more like a protector than anything actually useful. Anyway, we tried it out and it did resolve our issues, but I still had no idea why until I got to college and learned about different buses in some computer engineering class.