This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
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?
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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).
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I still have my 2005-2008 era Sony Vaiao in the garage at my parents house. If it booted up, I'd probably still have limewire running.
I need to wear a knee brace or use a cane, and I'm not even exaggerating.
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Going from a radio shack trs-80 model 3 to those desktops was great.
Except mine didn't have floppy drives. I only had a cassette player for storage.
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I grew up with these.
Not exactly this one, but I remember the old PC had 5.25 and 3.5", and the power was a big red switch, felt like you were juicing up the grid.
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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.
I let you front runners play with 1x and got a 2x with support for CD-RW, and because of it's buffer it only trashed the expensive CD-R's like 1/4 of the time. And I could use the computer a little if I dared!
Yup, and eventually I got a disk drive with LIGHTSCRIBE and just put the album art on the burned CD. I felt like hot shit.
You fucking were, that's some fancy ass equipment right there.
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That's how I serenaded my SO
Heh. Y'all remember Lincoln Logs in front of the family radio set? 🦗
Limewire? How about DC++ and eMule?
Napster, Kazaa and Morpheus to add a few names to the hat.
Ah, I forget about Kazaa and Kazaa Lite.
Bearshare gang, represent!
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Even worse: how about M.U.L.E.?
Love it, except when my M.U.L.E. goes haywire.
Okay okay but why sharpies? You can still buy and use those today, did you know?
Back in The Day, you'd write on CDRs with sharpie so you knew what each one contained.
Yea cos you couldn't use a normal pen or it'd scratch the disc.
I understand that of course, what I don't get is that it's still there even though it hasn't changed one bit since. Maybe I'm overthinking it
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Don't you know? Kids these days only know something twerk something eat hot chips something be bisexual etc..
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Naw. I'm this fucking old:
I wonder how many will realize it's not just a cassette tape to listen to music...
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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!
The screwdriver is not for the tape. It’s for adjusting the audio head so it can pick up the data on the tape.
When someone gave you a tape with some nice games on it there was a near 100% chance you needed to adjust your datasette to read them.
The tape drive has a hole on the top for adjusting the azimuth, but one of my friends basically just removed the top cover entirely for easier access to the screw. I did that too for some particularly tricky tapes.
Another of my friends had basically an unearthly knack of adjusting this stuff. Dude would just walk up to the tape drive, masterfully tweak the screw for a second, and it'd work. Which makes no sense.
This was all a kind of mysterious part of the Commodore 64 culture to me. Because I had a floppy drive and that's what I obviously preferred to use.
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Exactly. On the long run, we settled down on what we called a common calibration, a setting that allowed all of us locals to exchange tapes without constant tweaking.
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Punk kids. Back in my day we had Tandy and Applesoft BASIC. We had line numbers and it fucking hurt when they took that away with goddamn function declarations.
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...
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