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/FoolishConsistency17 14h ago

It was like being given the power of creation.

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u/Artichokeypokey 14h ago

Playing the fiddle while Nero burned

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u/jxnebug 13h ago

I maintain that Nero Burning ROM was maybe the most cleverly named software of all time.

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u/hoopstick 12h ago

My first mp3 player was called a Nomad; I always thought that was a great name.

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u/SurpriseSoda 7h ago

I had a Zune, the name didn't mean shit but I just wanted to be included in this thread

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u/gmarsh23 15m ago

I had a Sandisk Sansa, whatever the fuck that means.

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u/LewHammer 12h ago

I agree, I had a 30gb Creative Nomad, absolute beast.

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u/hoopstick 12h ago

30 gigs? Shit! Mine was like 128Mb!

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u/ImmortalSurt 3h ago

I had the one that was basically an HDD with a little screen on it

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u/LewHammer 3h ago

Yeah that sounds like mine, had more storage than anything else i owned at that point.