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Burning a CD is almost as bad!
The first cd burner I saw cost $4800 in 1996, an industrial component, SCSI. I installed it in a work station attached to a catscan in a hospital (Mayo Clinic). It was used by doctors to copy medical images so they could take them home for further study.
It lasted 2 weeks… a stupid doctor manged to break the auto eject. It was in the ejected position and he uncrossed his legs.
After replacing it I took the broken one home. Took the cover off the drive. The plastic eject portion was broken but not the drive. The drive would still read and write cd’s. I just had to drop them into place and pick them up to remove. I attached it to my home computer, Unix would run it. I was the only person I knew with a cd burner for a couple years. It was beyond slow, there was such a thing as 1x speed. But it was slightly faster and much larger than floppies. I still have it in my pc parts box.
It lasted 2 weeks… a stupid doctor manged to break the auto eject. It was in the ejected position and he uncrossed his legs.
After replacing it I took the broken one home. Took the cover off the drive. The plastic eject portion was broken but not the drive. The drive would still read and write cd’s. I just had to drop them into place and pick them up to remove. I attached it to my home computer, Unix would run it. I was the only person I knew with a cd burner for a couple years. It was beyond slow, there was such a thing as 1x speed. But it was slightly faster and much larger than floppies. I still have it in my pc parts box.
My first access to cd writer was around 1998, an external parallel port model that would complete a burn about a third of the time. Then I took it out of the external case, saw that it was IDE internally, plugged it up on its own IDE channel and then I was cooking with gasThe first cd burner I saw cost $4800 in 1996, an industrial component, SCSI. I installed it in a work station attached to a catscan in a hospital (Mayo Clinic). It was used by doctors to copy medical images so they could take them home for further study.
It lasted 2 weeks… a stupid doctor manged to break the auto eject. It was in the ejected position and he uncrossed his legs.
After replacing it I took the broken one home. Took the cover off the drive. The plastic eject portion was broken but not the drive. The drive would still read and write cd’s. I just had to drop them into place and pick them up to remove. I attached it to my home computer, Unix would run it. I was the only person I knew with a cd burner for a couple years. It was beyond slow, there was such a thing as 1x speed. But it was slightly faster and much larger than floppies. I still have it in my pc parts box.
They got cheap really quick. I built another home pc around 98/99 and bought a cd writer for it. Don't remember exactly but seems like they were about $500 but I could get them through work. I still ran scsi in those days because drive access was so fast. Think they came out with 'ultra wide scsi' about then. The drive access was so fast it made a home pc seem like a Ferrari.My first access to cd writer was around 1998, an external parallel port model that would complete a burn about a third of the time. Then I took it out of the external case, saw that it was IDE internally, plugged it up on its own IDE channel and then I was cooking with gas
SCSI was where it was at. In 1994-95 I had a 1x cd scsi drive connected through a proaudio spectrum 16 sound card. It would keep up with the 4x IDE models in their day. By 97' all of it ended up in a 486/120Mhz with 32MB of ram, VESA local bus graphics card, 14.4 modem that made one smooth running multiplayer Doom playing machine.They got cheap really quick. I built another home pc around 98/99 and bought a cd writer for it. Don't remember exactly but seems like they were about $500 but I could get them through work. I still ran scsi in those days because drive access was so fast. Think they came out with 'ultra wide scsi' about then. The drive access was so fast it made a home pc seem like a Ferrari.
