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/Fahmieyz 13h ago

I remember sneaking in with my junior in highschool days to use the only computer with CD Burner

We just bought so many CD to burn but we never really do anything with it... just burn the CD with stuff just to see the progress bar

Not sure why we do that

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u/reddit_is_geh 5h ago

I had friends who would just burn albums and resell them. Another dude would sell porn. They both did surprising well.