The very first CD I burned

[slag]

Was in March of 1998 and was titled "Warez" and was a compilation of tons of crap i downloaded at 28.8 kb/s over the university modem pool.

It was on a yellow/black memorex blank on a HP 1x or 2x burner. I want to say 4200i? At any rate, I found the disk a year ago when going through stuff and was still able to read the filez on it.

I had to turn everything off except the burning process and walk away from the computer when burning a cd or else it would error out because the buffer would empty. No screensaver, no anything, just burn the CD and go watch TV for an hour or whatever.

Always wanted a plexwriter but couldn't afford the scsi card nor the drive.

Some of you were there, some of you weren't born yet, some of you are now dead.

 

[vi edit]

Oh yes. Have some of those disks still laying around. A few still work. And yes, mine was for burning downloaded MP3's over the college network. Got mine in '97. Sooo many beer coasters at $1 a disk.

 

[core2slow]

Those were great times.

Before the ages of ipods and mobile A/V devices, i was recording episodes of The Simpsons on my handheld voice recorder and would play back the episode in my free time or when im out and about. Those were truly memorable times. Talk about the real struggles some of us have endured.😛

 

[SKORPI0]

Sept 1997. Paid about $650 for the HP Surestore 6020i plus $100 for the Adaptec AHA-2930U SCSI card for it. CD-R blanks cost about $4 each.
Buffer underrun technology wasn't invented yet, so you had to be careful. It took about 60-75 minutes to burn per disk at 1X speed. 😱

 

[CraKaJaX]

Napster?

God I remember DL'ing so much garbage from there. It taking forever and MAYBE working. Funny how that wasn't even that long ago in the grand scheme of things...

 

[Schfifty Five]

I loved it when Burn proof technology came out (Buffer Underun Protection)

 

[slag]

Yeah, the blanks I used were slightly over a buck a piece.. Eventually learned to get the verbatim ones from SAMS club, but yeah,. good times. Every once in awhile when I burn a DVD of old videos or something, I can alt tab out of my game, start cdburnerxp, and then go back into the game and never think twice about corrupting the data or having a bad burn. Like most things though, burners are basically a thing of the past.

Those are good memories though!

 

[Fritzo]

First thing I burned was in 1995- Mechwarrior 2. Gave a copy to my friends for multiplayer. GOD that game rocked. Always wanted a modern sequel to it, but Microsoft got a hold of the franchise and ruined it.

 

[dank69]

I think my first burn was the entire VirtuaGirl archive, haha.

 

[waggy]

lol god i hated those times. Though newegg had 100 blank cd's for a damn good price. i got 3 spindles. still have one left...lol

 

[waggy]

I think my first burn was the entire VirtuaGirl archive, haha.

fucking perv..


it was one of mine too! 😀

 

[dank69]

First thing I burned was in 1995- Mechwarrior 2. Gave a copy to my friends for multiplayer. GOD that game rocked. Always wanted a modern sequel to it, but Microsoft got a hold of the franchise and ruined it.

Yeah Mercenaries just didn't have the same feeling of awesomeness to it.

 

[Kaido]

Ah yes, Taiyo Yudens were the bomb back then. Nothing like waiting 45 minutes for a burn only to have it fail with other brands! Hahaha.

Oh man, and Lightscribe...

 

[brianmanahan]

the important question is: what is on your first iomega zip disk?

 

[DigDog]

dirty 28k peasant;

56k master race!




and the first CD i burned was music, idk what.
my first DVD was Neverwinter Nights + mods + saves.

 

[VoteQuimby]

I still remember the smell of a spindle of fresh CD-Rs

 

[SketchMaster]

I still remember the smell of a spindle of fresh CD-Rs

I always thought they smelled like cat pee... 🙁

Can't remember what my first CD was. I do remember getting a mac with DVD-RAM and thinking I was a big shot.

 

[Fritzo]

dirty 28k peasant;

56k master race!




and the first CD i burned was music, idk what.
my first DVD was Neverwinter Nights + mods + saves.

I went from a 2400bps modem to a USR Sportster 14.4...WOW was that thing fast!

 

[SlowSpyder]

At my first IT job, back around ~1997 we had a system set up in our lab with a 2x burner that at the time cost around $1000 if I remember correctly. My buddy and I made mix CD's, I still remember when we picked up a few girls, had the CD player in the car and they were amazed that we had the power to make our own CD's with a mix of songs. Good times. 🙂

 

[Jeff7]

Don't know, but it was a 2x Digital Research drive from Best Buy with a rebate. Memorex CD-Rs, I believe. It was probably a music CD mix.

 

[Oyeve]

Wow, I remember my jobs first external toshiba scsi burner. cost one thousand and blanks were 65 bucks a pop. they went down in price pretty quick to 12 bucks. Single speed, win NT 3.1, burn a disc and go to lunch. took hours. We had some very expensive coasters. We didnt even connect a mouse.

 

[Ns1]

I haven't even seen the word warez in ages.

 

[Pocatello]

Has it been that long? God I still have a few cd burners and a bunch of CDs down in the basement. I couldn't afford adobe photoshop, so I warez that among a few other things. I could never get pass the 28.8kb/s over the telephone line, I was so jealous at people who could get 56kb/s, lucky bastards!

 

[Anubis]

i think the first one i burned was a DIVX we made of the Transformers animated movie we ripped

 

[TwiceOver]

Back in the day when if you breathed wrong you had a coaster that took 4 hours to make.