The only rule was was to use ALL of the 700mb. I paid for that 800k, you bet your ass I’m gonna use it.
I remember trying different combinations of songs on my mixtapes to make sure I got full value.
There was a program call “Nero burning ROM”. A pun I understood much later
Ah fuck, I remember Nero, and I know why it is called Nero (because Nero and the burning of rome), but I never connect the ROM to ROME.
The logo was literally the colosseum on fire…
Oh I know about that, just the connection of Rom and Rome.
Ah, ok. Makes even more sense knowing that Nero is a German company, and the city is literally spelled Rom in German.
Exact same sentiment. Mind blown
you had a tiny needle and a little hammer, and you would look through a jeweler’s loupe to see where to carve in the 1s and the 0s. It was a golden age.
CD’s? HA! When I was young we copied music with hammer and chisel on a stone disc. And that WAS the actual music!
I don’t know how film is developed and nobody ever made fun of me for not knowing.
You weren’t taught this in high school?
…no?
I know how film is developed now due to curious YouTubers who love connecting technology, but I didn’t before then.
Haha, i think I watched the same video but got lost pretty quickly
I did, but only because I took an elective film development class.
Yikes, I’m old too.
We didn’t do any actual film development, but we were taught about the process and the chemistry involved in chemistry class.
I developed film by hand in elementary school but it’s only because I had an elected position that included taking school photos. A staff member taught me how to do it and kept all of the supplies stocked.
I used CloneCD. It had an icon of a sheep. Because Dolly.
It was a nuisance, with a high failure rate. Recording to tape was kind of fun. Optical not as much.
I thought the failure rate only went up a lot if you burned at very high speeds? I seem to remember having problems with burning an OS to a DVD too fast.
Depends on your drive and the media. Modern drives in good shape with any media will have like a 90%+ success rate. I don’t think my MacBook has ever had a failed burn that wasn’t because the disc was pre scratched. But older drives, and older media were sometimes a lot less reliable.
Sometimes modern stuff sucks too. The drive in my desktop will fail to burn a CD 100% of the time if I burn it at high speeds, but only because it’s shit and the disk falls of the spindle.
But I’ve got some ancient drives that still burn reliably at their highest speed. Mid 2000s was probably peak of CD and DVD burning reliability, and that’s why I use machines from then to do all my burning,
Was it high? It’s anecdotal, but I feel like I burned hundreds to thousands and had very few failures.
Yea, I’m with you. But I also made sure I bought good media.
May I introduce you to the concept of punching holes in floppy disks to make them writable?
Yeah I’m not gonna lie this is me. I’ve burned iso’s to CDs before but I really not get it. The cds I had could only be burned once and then got write protected and I didn’t know how to undo to. I’m just gonna stick with my flash drives
They’re not “write-protected”, they’re literally a write-once medium. The name “burner” isn’t a metaphore, that’s actually what they do.
Tbf there are absolutely rewritable CDs and DVDs:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-RW
Though compatibility with regular players was a bit of a crapshoot.
CD-R vs CD-RW.
Are you old enough to know what a buffer underrun is?
I wanna get a DVD/CD Rom drive in my PC, not because I need one because honestly it feels weird not having one
I have an external one around here somewhere. I’ve used it maybe once or twice, but I just like having it.
Don’t worry, even in Gen Alpha there are some people who know how to burn CDs (in theory), but probably never did, as it is not so widespread now.
Do you even know how to format a 3.5” floppy?
To be frank I am a 30 year old and had to think hard to remember how to burn a cd, and even then. I remember that you just picked the option to burn a cd lol. Remember when you actually needed 2 cd rom drives because images weren’t a thing.
CD-RWs were truly the flash drives of their day
I legit never reused a CD in my life. With how cheap CD-R was, I’d just buy a spindle and burner go brrrrrrrr.
I even re-used DVD-Rs. You can format the empty portion on them. I just hate creating waste if extra life can be squeezed out of it.
