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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

CDRW was never as well supported by the filesystem though. I think it was well into the 2000s before windows had a native "burn to disk" option in the filesystem browser. Before that you needed to fuss with third party software and select the correct disk type and drive speed and all that.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Oh yeah, I forgot about all that stuff you had to set up right to burn a cd and not turn it into a coaster. And the different configuration you would have to set up whether you wanted it to play like a music CD to go in the car or just files in mp3 format, which some car stereos would read correctly. I would never know how to do something like that now.

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