I saved like 14 months to buy a cd-rw drive. It was a nice Sony, I think 12x/4x. I paid like $400-some dollars for it around 1998 or 1999. My computer couldn't

I saved like 14 months to buy a cd-rw drive. It was a nice Sony, I think 12x/4x. I paid like $400-some dollars for it around 1998 or 1999. My computer couldn't keep the buffer filled unless I ceased all other activity, killed backgrounded programs, etc. I made a lot of coasters.