• tenchiken@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    23·
    1 年前

    Fun fact! The Laser in the burner didn’t actually burn from thermal effects, and instead caused a chemical reaction using specific wavelengths of light to activate a substrate called pthalocyanine.

    This is part of why you could burn “faster”, although typically you had a higher quality burn at slower speeds as the change from one color to another via the chemical effects was more complete. This allowed weaker reading lenses to better perceive the new colors easier, and greatly increased compatibility.

    I am very, very old.

    • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 年前

      “Floppy disks” were 8 inches a side in my youth and went in the minicomputer

      Then along came Newfangled desktop PCs with their 5.25" floppies

      Tom Bombadil remembers first acorn and first rain drop

      • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 年前

        Fun fact, in some countries the 3.5" floppies were called “stiffy disks”. You know, because the outer casing was “stiff” as opposed to the floppy 5.25" disks. This discovery led to a lot of chuckling among the team I worked with when we opened a new product from one of those countries and read the manual. The instruction to “insert stiffy disk” still leads most of us to chuckling today.

    • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      1 年前

      As the owner of a CD burner so old there was no speed to note, and later upgraded to a 4x burner…

      I’m also quite old it seems.

      Edited to add: I bought it at a computer show. The kind that you showed up to in person and paid like $5 to get into. I also bought a used laser 128.

    • The Ramen Dutchman@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      2·
      1 年前

      What took you five disks?
      I think even the Heroes of Might and Magic I played was 3 disks, and it took ages!

      And just yesterday I complained about having to wait over 2.5h to download and install a game over our 12 MiB / 100 megabit cable, I’m becoming spoiled…

      • Xatolos@reddthat.com
        1·
        1 年前

        Me having to explain… LOL

        Games that came on 5.25 floppy disks.

        Sierra’s Kings Quest 4 came on 9 disks.

  • rozodru@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 年前

    I had a program that came with special CD Labels for the printer where you could make your own cool CD label covers. that was fun.

    Or going into a Dreamcast IRC channel to download games and burn them to disk. I think I only ever actually bought like 2 Dreamcast games, Shenmue and Seaman, the rest were just burned to CD-Rs.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    2·
    1 年前

    …and for a while it was fairly normal to refer to writing bootable USB sticks as “burning” as well.

    Now I don’t say that anymore because I don’t want to sound like a boomer, or - worse - I don’t want people to take me at my word or think I’m just plain mad.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    1 年前

    I downloaded a 1GB update on my phone today and it took a couple minutes. I spaced out remembering how fucking advanced it felt getting a x2 CD burner.

    • villainy@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 年前

      Then you try to do anything else with that PC while it’s writing at 300 KBps and… buffer underrun. So many coasters.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
    1·
    1 年前

    “The ‘burn’ part is like what the climate change does, which you are familiar with.
    The ‘CD’ part is like your brain, where the ‘burn’ causes microplastics to melt in a pattern that stores data.”

    “Now kids, can anyone tell me why the historians often say ‘CDs nutz’?”