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Posted by Leperous on Sun Apr 25th at 6:29pm 2004

Orph, are you doing a running commentary here or what



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 6:36pm 2004

? posted by Leperous
Orph, are you doing a running commentary here or what

uhh, would it help if i admitted i don't understand your question?

however that may be, i was indeed arguing with myself over, just how short a time i have had a computer..

jeff made me realize.. things have come a very long way, in a very short time span :/

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Posted by $loth on Sun Apr 25th at 7:06pm 2004

? quote:

10 years ago, i didn't even own a cd/rom.. hell, 10 years ago, i didn't even own a PC

hell 10 years ago I hadnt even heard of a pc! I was 5 years old!

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Posted by Gorbachev on Sun Apr 25th at 7:08pm 2004

3.5" were pretty standard 10 years ago, I was talking about CD-Rs from within that 5-10 range. To get one from beyond that would be very rare, but possible. CDs and their writers (not exactly our present day PC writer though) have been around since the 80s I believe if not longer. [addsig]



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Posted by OtZman on Sun Apr 25th at 7:50pm 2004

I use Zoom Player [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 10:16pm 2004

I never said CDs didn't exist then, but you said "I have CD-Rs much older than that" - this isn't true, even if you took 5 years, much older than 5 years has got to be at least 8 years, and you didn't have a CD writer then either



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Apr 25th at 10:24pm 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
I never said CDs didn't exist then, but you said "I have CD-Rs much older than that" - this isn't true, even if you took 5 years, much older than 5 years has got to be at least 7 years, and you didn't have a CD writer then either

uhh jeff, i hate to point this out but, what good would blank cd/r's be if you could not own a writer?

you leave the impression that his having one was not possible.. so why would one have blanks with no way to record upon them?

and, i did see music writers long before data ones..

i am confused.. and not for the first time when swapping replies with you i might add

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Posted by Leperous on Sun Apr 25th at 10:28pm 2004

Hrm, there doesn't seem to be much on the horizon for the next 5 or so years storage wise, barring blue (?) laser DVDs which can hold ~20gb or so. Maybe a bit of MRAM banter too if we're lucky. So your writeable CD/DVDs seem to be a good bet for the time being, until we get some crystal/quantum storage stuff going



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Posted by Crono on Sun Apr 25th at 10:30pm 2004

Orph, he said CDs existed. and CD-Rs were basically non-existant.

Its due to the fact that a 'cheap' cd-r writer could not make readable cds to other readers. (thus the idea of multiread cd roms which is compliant with almost every laser in every cd-type machine now).

They actually had writable cds ten years ago, they were just insanly expensive and your final product was a normal cd, just as if it were made in a factory of some sort. And yes, they were mostly used for music. But they existed for data too (CD-Roms in general existed didn't they? You could buy the burner, which was a stand alone item, but it would cost a lot) [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Apr 25th at 10:36pm 2004

? posted by Orpheus

uhh jeff, i hate to point this out but, what good would blank cd/r's be if you could not own a writer?

They were selling CD-R's here before they started selling burners..

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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 10:37pm 2004

Blu-Ray (yes blu) is meant to be out this year, but there's a competitor from asia I think, also coming out this year. The shelf life for written DVDs or other multilayered discs is lower than for CD-Rs.

WC, what are you talking about?



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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Apr 25th at 10:40pm 2004

seriously. back a long time ago, I went to the PC store I used to always go to, and they were selling CD-R's in packs of 5 for 20bucks (now you can get 5 with full size jewel case for 5$) but yea they were selling them about 6 months before they started selling burners. And those burners were external only. [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 10:42pm 2004

"they were selling" - I see, so your local place had writers after the media. Kinda dum, but makes sense



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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Apr 25th at 10:43pm 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
"they were selling" - I see, so your local place had writers after the media. Kinda dum, but makes sense

Silly dooch. Is it that hard to see that "were" is the pass tence?

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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Apr 25th at 10:51pm 2004

umm?

OK, you said 'they had media before writers', I thought you were saying 'they' as in 'the computer industry'. Then when it turned out that 'they' was just 'your local shop', what you said made sense. I don't see what the tense has to do with it.



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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Apr 25th at 10:53pm 2004

ait, so I was out of it again [addsig]




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