the sheriff's secret police will be along shortly for OP with tickets for a free mandatory vacation to the sheriff's secret luxury reeducation center and spa. speaking about the sheriff's secret luxury reeducation center and spa is forbidden.
Something called "Ask Leo" does say there's a high risk of a disk shattering when spun above 48x, which is apparently equivalent to 24000 RPM. However, I can't vouch for the credibility of this site any more than I can for the person who originally made that claim to me (except that I think it was my dad and he was usually pretty dependable).
Apparently Mythbusters demonstrated that a disk will shatter at 30000 RPM but, as sometimes happens, their methodology was criticized. This, it seems, is because they spun the disk on a Dremel rather than in a more realistic environment.
That usually only happened once. Was kinda sad that my radio couldn't play the 100+ songs, but at least the computer still could and I needed the free space.
Most kids back then probably didn't either, because they would've hooked the tape recorder up to the line out port on their computer if they wanted to do that.
I didn't say laptop, I said "computer." You dragged the entire desktop PC, including the 50 lb CRT monitor, across the house to the hi-fi system (or vice-versa), and you liked it!
(Edit: you do realize I'm talking about using the computer to record to a cassette tape and then playing the tape in the car, not hooking a laptop up directly to your car stereo, right?)
I had the little CD to cassette tape adapter, I also drove around with a laptop in the passenger seat plugged into the aux port, which quickly turned into a cheap mp3 player.
I was an early adopter of the portable "MP3-CD" player (and a late adopter of the portable CD player in general, because that's the first I ever owned). That, the radio, and commercially-bought cassettes were the only ways I played music in my car as a teenager.
The point is, though, I was responding to the previous comment about "the hassle of burning a cd of mp3s and then recording the cd onto a cassette tape." I know there were other ways to do it, but I wasn't discussing them.
Ran DOS, not even Windows. B&W screen, if you wanted color, you could press on the screen and get a glorious rainbow. There was no mouse integrated into the laptop. Instead there was a serial trackball mouse. It weighed probably 19 pounds and had an impressive 45 minute battery life.
It also may have fallen off the back of a truck. Computers were way less trackable back then.
Also from magazines! I remember an issue of Dragon that had the code for a full game printed in it, and you had to copy the code to your computer by hand and compile it.
It makes sense, if you don't care about giving a headache to whoever tunes in to the station.
8 bit software came, for most people, on compact audio cassettes (the same kind we used to record music from the radio and make mix tapes, and which could be rewound with a pencil), which could be played on a cassette player if you didn't mind the noise (data doesn't usually sound good), so it's no wonder at some point someone (probably several people independently) came up with the idea of broadcasting that noise.
Another means of distribution were magazines... but typing up the code was a chore, unless it was a POKE to cheat at your favourite game...
Also texting existed but was like 10c per text and would easily rack up huge phone bill charges. We used IM programs on the computer instead. No one relied on their cell phones to actually communicate outside of an emergency because they sucked and were expensive.
I recently found perfectly working HP external disc burner while dumpster diving electronics bin at work and I have uncovered ancient ways of witchcraft again that I have once known but forgotten. This stuff costs like 50€ in stores now and I found it again for free. Nice. Burned the CDRW disc I still had in drawer for test if it works fine and the process hit me with so much nostalgia lol
I've always felt that, as children start to come of age, they should be given their own lifelong raid nas to store things efficiently. Like as an 18th birthday coming of age, "it is time you became an adult..." Then that kid won't have to rely on shitty cloud corpo dark pattern shenanigans.
Some of us never forgot the old ways, just like there are still practitioner of the hellenic religions. You are but a few left and your religion is dead. We embraced the new religion, we stream and we do not possess, we talk to the clouds and let the data flow, where you used to burn and rip. We are pacifists, you were barbarians. You will not be missed and your religion is doomed to die with the lot of you.
They are sold, but no one is using it. Like, my PC hasn't had optical drive for like a decade now if not more, my oldest laptop still has one, 2 newer ones didn't come with one at all. My car has CD player still, but I 3D printed a phone holder and jammed it in there and my phone is playing music via BT adapter and into AUX. And even before this, I bought the car specifically with USB port that plays MP3's and I've not listened to it that way for years now. But it's there. Can't imagine listening to CD's in a car these days...
When you have to post a minimum of 5x per day to fit in/keep engagement numbers up/boost your ego, any little thing happening (or not) in your life becomes a potential post.
65 Comments
ICastFist@programming.dev · 71 pts · 204d
Not only we burned CDs, we also RIPPED them
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 204d
You should not be speaking of this!!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 204d
the sheriff's secret police will be along shortly for OP with tickets for a free mandatory vacation to the sheriff's secret luxury reeducation center and spa. speaking about the sheriff's secret luxury reeducation center and spa is forbidden.
einlander@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 204d
Didn't forget DVD Toasters
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 204d
“Rip. Mix. Burn.”
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 204d
Instead of the sound of a chainsaw, it's the sound of a 70x drive on the verge of exploding
toynbee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
I thought the disks would shatter if spun much above 42x ...
But I was told that many moons ago so maybe my information is outdated. Or maybe it was just never accurate.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 203d
I mean, I think technically the "x" is the read speed, and not necessarily indicative of what the maximum RPM is.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 203d
Ah, I was always told that ##x was how many times faster than some classic model of cd drive the disk was spun.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 203d
I always thought listening to music was 1x = 76 minutes, so a 4x cd burner would burn a disc in like 4 minutes....
toynbee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 203d
Based on a few things, we were both right. Primarily I'm going to reference this (which corroborates what you said, except it claims 74 minutes):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_storage_media_writing_and_reading_speed
Something called "Ask Leo" does say there's a high risk of a disk shattering when spun above 48x, which is apparently equivalent to 24000 RPM. However, I can't vouch for the credibility of this site any more than I can for the person who originally made that claim to me (except that I think it was my dad and he was usually pretty dependable).
https://askleo.com/what_does_the_x_in_a_48x_speed_cdrom_mean/
Apparently Mythbusters demonstrated that a disk will shatter at 30000 RPM but, as sometimes happens, their methodology was criticized. This, it seems, is because they spun the disk on a Dremel rather than in a more realistic environment.
einlander@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 204d
Nero Burning Rom
echiliedogg@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 204d
I didn't catch that joke for decades.
einlander@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 204d
I mean it's icon was the colosseum on fire...
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 204d
the fact that so many people missed it is sad.
public education should be the nation's most important expenditure.
theywanttocontrolyou@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 204d
Just now got that it was even a joke.
mitch404@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 204d
I catch that joke now. I'm over 40.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 35 pts · 205d
"No, that's my pc's retractable drink holder."
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 205d
teft@piefed.social · 35 pts · 205d
Or burning a data cd of mp3s not realizing that your player will only play audio cds.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 205d
ICastFist@programming.dev · 6 pts · 204d
That usually only happened once. Was kinda sad that my radio couldn't play the 100+ songs, but at least the computer still could and I needed the free space.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 204d
gotta get the adapter for your disc man that plugged into the car cassette deck
grue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 204d
Most kids back then probably didn't either, because they would've hooked the tape recorder up to the line out port on their computer if they wanted to do that.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 204d
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 204d
My friend, no one had a laptop in the 90s. They didn't become cheap enough for that until the early 2000s.
grue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 204d
I didn't say laptop, I said "computer." You dragged the entire desktop PC, including the 50 lb CRT monitor, across the house to the hi-fi system (or vice-versa), and you liked it!
(Edit: you do realize I'm talking about using the computer to record to a cassette tape and then playing the tape in the car, not hooking a laptop up directly to your car stereo, right?)
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 204d
I had the little CD to cassette tape adapter, I also drove around with a laptop in the passenger seat plugged into the aux port, which quickly turned into a cheap mp3 player.
grue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 204d
I was an early adopter of the portable "MP3-CD" player (and a late adopter of the portable CD player in general, because that's the first I ever owned). That, the radio, and commercially-bought cassettes were the only ways I played music in my car as a teenager.
The point is, though, I was responding to the previous comment about "the hassle of burning a cd of mp3s and then recording the cd onto a cassette tape." I know there were other ways to do it, but I wasn't discussing them.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 204d
Does no one remember LAN parties!?
teft@piefed.social · 1 pts · 204d
Across the house? I used to put mine on a wagon and drag it across town for lan parties. Lots of blankets to minimize bouncing and it was fine.
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 204d
My uncle used to work for Microsoft back in the day and so he had one of the earliest commercial laptops. I think the laptop weighed more than he did.
It had the worst screen in the world it had a viewing angle of about 4° but everyone wanted to see it.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 204d
I had a laptop in 98.
Ran DOS, not even Windows. B&W screen, if you wanted color, you could press on the screen and get a glorious rainbow. There was no mouse integrated into the laptop. Instead there was a serial trackball mouse. It weighed probably 19 pounds and had an impressive 45 minute battery life.
It also may have fallen off the back of a truck. Computers were way less trackable back then.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 203d
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/pGcAAOSwAqRiO4dM/s-l400.jpg
MP3 player to cassette adapter.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 204d
nobody tell them about how we recorded songs from the radio and made mix tapes
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 204d
Meh, songs. We recorded computer programs from the radio!
qaeta@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 202d
Also from magazines! I remember an issue of Dragon that had the code for a full game printed in it, and you had to copy the code to your computer by hand and compile it.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
Holy shit, I didn't know you could do that.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 203d
It makes sense, if you don't care about giving a headache to whoever tunes in to the station.
8 bit software came, for most people, on compact audio cassettes (the same kind we used to record music from the radio and make mix tapes, and which could be rewound with a pencil), which could be played on a cassette player if you didn't mind the noise (data doesn't usually sound good), so it's no wonder at some point someone (probably several people independently) came up with the idea of broadcasting that noise.
Another means of distribution were magazines... but typing up the code was a chore, unless it was a POKE to cheat at your favourite game...
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 204d
You toss a bunch of tapes in a bucket and mix 'em together, then bring them the bucket. Simple.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 204d
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 204d
We used fucking LASERS
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 203d
Light Amplifier by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
stoy@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 205d
I remember burning some warez on a CD-R, getting a clean burn after 20min, and grabing a ballpoint pen to write the name of the warez on the disk.....
Sad times....
proudblond@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 204d
Also texting existed but was like 10c per text and would easily rack up huge phone bill charges. We used IM programs on the computer instead. No one relied on their cell phones to actually communicate outside of an emergency because they sucked and were expensive.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 204d
They also counted received texts towards your total, which is insane
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 203d
Right? It was fucking highway robbery.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 204d
Technologic.
RejZoR@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 205d
I recently found perfectly working HP external disc burner while dumpster diving electronics bin at work and I have uncovered ancient ways of witchcraft again that I have once known but forgotten. This stuff costs like 50€ in stores now and I found it again for free. Nice. Burned the CDRW disc I still had in drawer for test if it works fine and the process hit me with so much nostalgia lol
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 204d
I got one too. Its a combo of drive and rca inputs for burning camcorder or VCR to dvd
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 204d
Burned. Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 204d
Disk rot is real, we must teach the young how to care for the relics.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 204d
I hate it.
I've always felt that, as children start to come of age, they should be given their own lifelong raid nas to store things efficiently. Like as an 18th birthday coming of age, "it is time you became an adult..." Then that kid won't have to rely on shitty cloud corpo dark pattern shenanigans.
coronach@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 204d
Indeed.... A recording of a performance I gave back in 2006 cannot be read by anything I've attempted 😔
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 204d
That's old magic, all but lost to the ages. It was practiced by ancient religions like Napster and LimeWire, but they are all gone now.
Best to let it rest. There is no advantage to dredging up all those old superstitions now.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 204d
Lost my ass. I still have external burners. DVD-Rs are cheap. Makes for a decent way to play my old Xbox and PS-PS2 games.
Also, yarr.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 204d
Me matey!
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
Yarr!
Ashiette@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 204d
Some of us never forgot the old ways, just like there are still practitioner of the hellenic religions. You are but a few left and your religion is dead. We embraced the new religion, we stream and we do not possess, we talk to the clouds and let the data flow, where you used to burn and rip. We are pacifists, you were barbarians. You will not be missed and your religion is doomed to die with the lot of you.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 186d
It's the reason why They banned fireplaces in most cities.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 3 pts · 205d
They mean GenX? Probably both. Maybe a Xennial thing if I have my terminology right.
Throw the phrase “making coasters” at this guy and see what happens.
I am sad he doesn’t know what an optical disc burner is, since they’re being sold and used through to this year.
RejZoR@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 204d
They are sold, but no one is using it. Like, my PC hasn't had optical drive for like a decade now if not more, my oldest laptop still has one, 2 newer ones didn't come with one at all. My car has CD player still, but I 3D printed a phone holder and jammed it in there and my phone is playing music via BT adapter and into AUX. And even before this, I bought the car specifically with USB port that plays MP3's and I've not listened to it that way for years now. But it's there. Can't imagine listening to CD's in a car these days...
Zephorah@discuss.online · 2 pts · 204d
Non smart tv alternatives.
badbytes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 203d
Imagine asking social media for an answer, and not just searching. Use your brain youngooos.
bilb@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 203d
That is probably the best way to get the right answer, but getting the right answer might not be the poster's primary goal.
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 202d
When you have to post a minimum of 5x per day to fit in/keep engagement numbers up/boost your ego, any little thing happening (or not) in your life becomes a potential post.