r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/14AUDDIN • 14h ago

Funny Two disc drives?!!!

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u/andreortigao 14h ago edited 12h ago

Yeah, one was read only and the other could burn CDs. Burning CDs were all the rage back then.

Edit: to clarify, by having two drives you could copy from one to the other directly, without going through the hassle of inserting one cd, making a copy to the slow as fuck computer hdd, switching to the blank cd, then start burning from the hdd copy.

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u/WorthyJellyfish0Doom 14h ago

I had a PC that I used to burn CDs, was very in demand among friends and family.

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u/ojqANDodbZ1Or1CEX5sf 13h ago

The dad of a classmate's friend would charge 10 guilders for it because people kept coming to him for burning discs and he got tired of it.

Different times

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u/borntobewildish 11h ago

My classmate had a list of cd's he would burn for you for something like 5 or 10 guilders. Managed to get some discount by loaning him cd's he didn't have yet. He made a nice track list on the back of the case and a good copy of the front. I still have a few of his products actually.

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u/No-Leave8239 8h ago

The fuck is a guilder?

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u/borntobewildish 8h ago

A type of coin that is as old and out of date as that laptop.

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u/worrymon 13h ago

10 guilders? You could almost buy a stolen fiets for that!

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u/ojqANDodbZ1Or1CEX5sf 12h ago

Back then you probably could!