This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…

    • D_C@lemm.ee
      13·
      9 days ago

      Wooo, look at hoity toity FancyPants over here with their screwdriver. All we could afford to fix our cassette tapes was a pencil. And a blunt pencil at that. And it was probably stolen from school!! Screwdrivers indeed!

  • Ken Oh@lemm.ee
    17·
    9 days ago

    Remember how when you would burn a CD you couldn’t use your computer lest the write buffer dropped too low and the burn world fail?

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 days ago

      I remember buying a stack of CDs only to find out they were +R, not -R, and this utterly useless (or something like that, can’t specifically recall whether ±R/RW).

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
        9·
        8 days ago

        I remember this being a DVD thing. By the time I got a dvd burner though mine supported both.

        The RW issue with CDs was that a lot of older players couldn’t read them.

        • PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          8 days ago

          I damaged the laser on a PS2 by using a DVD-RW. They’re harder to read than a normal disc apparently, so it wore the laser down pretty quick

          • theangryseal@lemmy.world
            3·
            8 days ago

            Can you believe my original ps1 is still rocking hard with zero adjustments?

            My ps2 is currently dead, but it was because I used thicker wire than necessary when modding it a thousand years ago and I need to just heat up the solder a bit.

            That console is a nightmare to disassemble/reassemble though and it’s been down for around 15 years. I’ll fix it one day.

              • theangryseal@lemmy.world
                2·
                8 days ago

                Oh man they’re so so so easy to fix.

                My childhood NES had a capacitor go out recently and the color was off. It still worked it was just ugly.

                I have like 10 of them so I just swapped my case, but for some silly reason it’s like I don’t feel connected to the “spirit” of the machine because of it.

                I’m going to have to order new capacitors and you just reminded me.

                Get that thing fixed. It’s so so easy.

              • theangryseal@lemmy.world
                2·
                8 days ago

                And just saying, if it’s the 72 pin connector, you don’t need a new one. Just pop yours out and bend the pins back out. It’s very very easy, honest to God there’s no reason to get a new one. I have new ones in my closet, probably 20 of them, but I’ve never really needed to use any of them.

                If you don’t want to fool with that PM me your address and I’ll send you one.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 days ago

      Or trying to re-burn a cdrw but it was originally not burnt with the same soft as yours 😓

      🗑️💿🚮💔

  • oppy1984@lemm.eeEnglish
    17·
    8 days ago

    2001, Dre’s album drops, nobody has it yet. In walks the kid who has a T1 line and a 5 disc CD copier with a spindle of discs. He sits down in homeroom, puts the spindle on his desk and says Dre’s new album five bucks right here.

    He sold out before the end of the day, made a good amount of cash, and was racking it in for months getting people albums that they requested because none of us could get it work with our slow connection. Of course when the two competing ISPs upgraded their networks later that year, he lost the majority of his business, but for a few months he was our pirate savior.

  • dan00@lemm.ee
    12·
    9 days ago

    I don’t even know what you are talking about. I am young, very young. I enjoy rizzing in the toilets and skibiding everyday bro. So fresh. 🤙

    pls don’t leave me with the boomers…

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    9 days ago

    I remember the moment I realised my fancy new Walkman could read data CD-Rs and I could fit all my mp3s into one 700mb disc. I felt insane, majestic, limitless.

    • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      Then you’d get a copy protected disc that wouldn’t play at all in the disc man, but you could copy it to a CD-R and that’d play just fine. To disable the copy protection you just hold shift while the cd tray closes.

    • devfuuu@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 days ago

      I ended up even buying some rewritable mini discs because they were so much smaller and still good enough space for some mp3 files.

  • adm@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    8 days ago

    Damn kids acting like 5-10 years before they were born was the dark ages. Damn.

    • alphabethunter@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 days ago

      I’m not even 30 yet and I ripped CDs in my youth. I didn’t use limewire though, we would use torrents already at that point.

  • voodooattack@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 days ago

    Old enough to remember using a 3½” floppy disk to boot my first PC and mess around with GW/Q-BASIC and play DOS games.

    The disks were strongly perfumed (I guess the guy I bought my pirated games from liked to do that for some reason), and I still remember that aroma.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    6·
    8 days ago

    I remember my first written CD. You put the CD into a transfer case and slide it into a large box. Shortly after, the empty transfer case comes back out. You have already prepared your CD image, not as a project or file, no, you had to prepare it as an image on its own partition, on a disk that did not host anything else.

    Then you shutdown your computer, and reboot it basically into the burn program, which then tries to move the data fast enough from the disk partition to the CD burner. The speed, of course, was 1x, so this write operation could last an hour and a quarter.

    Then, your computer reboots back into the OS. You put the empty transfer case into the writer, and after some time, it comes back out with the media. And now you can finally put in into a reader and read it and compare it to the data on that partition. Knock on wood, or whatever. Because about half the writes failed, and the media cost a fortune.