does anyone remember when cd burners first came out?

[Juno]

lol, i bought a 32x lite-on cd burner for $30 in '03. also bought a 16x nec dvd burner for $40 in '05.

woo.

 

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i remember when cd players first came out
i paid $375 ,i think, for a 3X cd reader and sound blaster 16 controller card. that was under a trade up program where i had to send in my "old" 8 bit sound blaster card to upgrade

that was about 1994 or 1995, i think it was just before windows 95 came out

I bought a kit with cd drive and sound card,was around $500.



my 1st burner was an HP that I got during the infamous Staples coupon days

 

[VTHodge]

Bought a 2x HP at Best Buy for $250. Maybe it was early 1999? I remember I had to decompress all my MP3s to WAVs before I started the burn. Always had to quit every program, too. It was maybe 20% coasters. Mostly when you tried to multi-task.

 

[iamwiz82]

I remember my HP 7200i fondly. 2x write 6x read.

 

[Corbett]

My dad and I made a special trip to "Computer City" to get an 8x cd READER when they came out. I think it was like $300 when it came out!

 

[vi edit]

2x2x8 for around $350 in '96 or '97 I think. I'm trying to even remember the brand...started with an "R" and sounded really "Asian"...sort of like Ryobi...but that wasn't it.

Ran it on a P-133. Yikes. Hour long rips + another hour for the burn. Turned off all background aps, disabled screen savers, ect.

Pretty crazy how far things have progressed. Recently I was able to play Half Life 2 while burning a DVD.

 

[RiverDog]

Originally posted by: Corbett
My dad and I made a special trip to "Computer City" to get an 8x cd READER when they came out. I think it was like $300 when it came out!

I remember paying around that for a 2x READER for my 486sx and it came for a game or two. I can remember telling my wife that after I upgraded my 8088 with a 20MEG hard drive that I proably wouldn't need a new computer for at least 10 years.

 

[SuperNaruto]

First one i saw was in 1988... Tandy Thor.. yes a TANDY... wasn't a commerical unit.. but earlier sony cdr were 8k.. size of a vcr...

http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/thorcd88.html

 

[Rubycon]

I remember when the X would appear on the writing icon in Adaptec EZ CD creator. At $8 per disc it was enough to cry over. :Q

 

[TheCanuck]

I remember my first time. We were both drunk and .... oh snap, wrong thread.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Zaitsevs
if so, how much did they cost? did you get one? how fast was it and how many coasters did it produce?

just would like to talk about old stuff like that


I was looking on newegg.com and saw blue ray drives for 600$ usd. One of the buyers had said " I was an early adopter of cd burners and dvd burners and I paid much more for that than I did this drive"

do you guys remember how much they were?

I remember when my aunt had one and I would get a list of songs and then make a cd. I used to be real excited -

i don't remember when they 1st came out but my 1st one was a 4x external. I got it from Staples i think. I think i got a really good deal on it because i was expecting to spend like $200+ on one and ended up spending $80! I don't know if it was a price mistake or what but I was shocked (and extremely happy). They were still retailing for over $200 when i sold it. I sold it for $100, lol.

 

[JRich]

My first one was some Sony 8x that I got for free.

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
I remember when the X would appear on the writing icon in Adaptec EZ CD creator. At $8 per disc it was enough to cry over. :Q

ahh the memories. For me it something more along the lines of throwing my mouse at the monitor when multiple discs would fail in a row. Not only did it take like a half hour to burn them, but they cost like $6 a disc.

 

[sixone]

Oh, the good old days.

 

[halik]

The first one i bought was 4x2x8 ... $150

 

[Pepsi90919]

if so, how much did they cost?

too much

did you get one?

yes

how fast was it

2x

and how many coasters did it produce?

a lot

 

[DaveJ]

I got a screamin' deal on a 2x Philips drive in 1997... went out to a local place with a fellow FidoNet trader that had lots of stuff in bulk, and they had a stack of drives still in the retail boxes for $150 each, marked as-is. We got the drives home and neither of them worked... until I figured out that the test the included software ran defaulted to mode 2, and when I switched it back to mode 1 the drive worked perfectly. Woohoo!

I do also remember paying $1/disc for generic cheapo stuff at First Saturday in Dallas... those were the days...

Dave

 

[DaveJ]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
2x2x8 for around $350 in '96 or '97 I think. I'm trying to even remember the brand...started with an "R" and sounded really "Asian"...sort of like Ryobi...but that wasn't it.

Was it Ricoh?

 

[geecee]

My first CD-burner was a Plextor 4X SCSI burner. It only burned CD-Rs (NOT -RWs) and cost me around $400+(??). I don't believe that I ever had a coaster with it. It's sitting in a box in my attic and still works today. At least I think it does, although to be honest, I haven't bothered plugging a SCSI card into anything in 4-5 years.

EDIT: Don't remember when I got it. 1996 or 1997 maybe? Finally found the model number - PX-R412C. Plextor doesn't even list it among its archived drives anymore. I had to go into their "drive history" timeline to find it.

 

[jlfirehawk]

I had a Hival that I got at compusa for 1100 1x that would coaster about 80% of the time and blanks were not cheap either I think they were 4 or 5 a piece.

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: ed21x
4x2x8 for $400. My Plextor 12x10x32A is still going strong

i have that same plextor drive - they are rock solid

 

[Saulbadguy]

Hewlett Packard 4x4x6. $249.99 from Office Depot.

 

[dwil]

I remember paying for $12 CD-r's and being VERY disappointed in a coaster. This was 1995 I believe.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: jlcampbell
I had a Hival that I got at compusa for 1100 1x that would coaster about 80% of the time and blanks were not cheap either I think they were 4 or 5 a piece.

HiVal - now that's a brand that reminds me of this. :laugh:

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Zaitsevs
if so, how much did they cost? did you get one? how fast was it and how many coasters did it produce?

just would like to talk about old stuff like that


I was looking on newegg.com and saw blue ray drives for 600$ usd. One of the buyers had said " I was an early adopter of cd burners and dvd burners and I paid much more for that than I did this drive"

do you guys remember how much they were?

I remember when my aunt had one and I would get a list of songs and then make a cd. I used to be real excited -

Yes, I remember how huge a deal that was...I could put the songs I wanted on a CD in the order I wanted...all for the price of a (then) $2 CD.

Ah, memories...