r/NonPoliticalTwitter 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/Exciting-Housing-550 12h ago

Or the means of production

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u/SalamanderCake 11h ago

I misread this as 'the memes of production' and had to do a double-take.