You know it's actually the best data archival format next to LTC tape backup for longevity? Writing a quality blank CDR at 1x will last longer than bluray, dvd, etc ...Important media will last decades.
22:39 - The guy on the left wants one so bad, lol. 25:15 - "Don't copy that floppy!" lol Nice catch phrase - until CDs became more popular. Then came the internet, and it all when to hell. ;)
Still remember the day when as a teenager I managed to gather the money to purchase a double speed internal mitsumi cd-rom drive for my 386DX PC. That was a hell of an upgrade. One of first cdrom titles I purchased was MS Encarta Encyclopedia. I was blown away with all that multimedia stuff ! There's not such an excitement anymore, despite the fact that the technology has advanced exponentially.
Last time I was excited about hardware was upgrading from an old HDD to an SSD. Went from multi minute load times to seconds. File explorer is actually super easy to use now!
Stuart: 'What do I get for my money by going out and buying a CD-ROM drive and buying CD-ROM software' Computer Chronicles Guests: 'a CD-ROM drive and some CD-ROM software'
There were only 130 web sites by 1993. It didn't start to take off in popularity until the next few years after. Gopher was still more popular and widely used in 1991, particularly among university students and faculty. I used to dial into my local community college's gopher portal, then navigate my way to IRC links to real time chat with people all over the world for free. Meanwhile, Compuserve and other online services were charging insane amounts to use their own real time chat services.
I like watching these. A simpler time for consumer and pro users alike. My first CD burner was a Plextor unit. I used it to copy karaoke discs. This of course is post to the date of this video but I thought it was cool. How technology has radically changed...mostly for the better me thinks.
I couldn't afford a CD ROM when I built my first computer in 1993. I had Microsoft Office and it came in a fairly large box that was about 10 pounds because it came on something like 92 3.5" floppies and several large printed manuals and took about 5 1/2 to 6 hours to install.
@@johngrave5554 He's lying. Microsoft Office 95 , floppy version, had 40 or 50 Megabytes. Depending on translation. It would fit into 27 diskettes or 34 diskettes. Average transfer speed is 30kb/sec, so one diskette is copied in 48 seconds. If you count one minute per disk, because of changing the disks, which can be actually done faster, it would take 27 or 34 minutes, to copy Microsoft Office 95 to computer.
I had a Tandy Sensation in 1992, a 486 computer that came with a 1x CD-ROM ... Never was a big fan of those early CD titles though -- Early multimedia was cheesy, with clunky interfaces. Most of the good software and games were made for DOS and came on floppy disks, or were available to download on the local underground BBS scene.
I was playing a game while listening to this, tabbing out every so often to watch a new episode, while Eugene wad talking i swear i could hear Paul McCartney.
I remember HATING Battlechess. It was nothing but animations. You couldn't fight for your spot plus it took FOREVER for the moves to play out. ZZzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Does any one know if that jazz program is available online anywhere? I would love to read through all the profiles and interact with the interactive media
I can tell Stewart wasn't overly impressed with LORDS OF THUNDER!!!... mannnn that game was epic. Quite an amazing awkward moment. I was waiting for the comment of. "But can it run Lotus 1-2-3"
Of course they're going to recommend that you get the high end drives, they are out for one reason and that's to make money. Perhaps many users who were new to CD's didn't want to spend a ton of money for the name brand.
As far as I remember. There was a huge difference between the different brands and you wouldn't want to get the cheaper stuff since it would soon break or be useless
The host is a crab. "Some might not think a shoot em up game is the best use of CD-ROMs technology." Just wait until you see the entire porn industry go CD-ROM, Jack.
