In the grand scheme of things, the CD barely did exist at all • Aaron Parecki

SwiftOnSecurity https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity • Sep 21
In 1982, the Commodore64 cost an inflation-adjusted $1,600 - and had 64KB of RAM.

A compact disc outputs 176KB. Per second.

The CD is basically a temporal aberration and should not have existed at all.

In the grand scheme of things, the CD barely did exist at all

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- katattack twitter.com/dory_chris
  
  Slow is an understatement.
  
  Mon, Sep 21, 2020 3:51am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Adrian Chadd twitter.com/erikarn
  
  CD was around for 30+ years. I don't think it counts as "barely existed." I think for a lot of people CDs "existed" starts mid to late 90s, but they came into existence in the early 80s and non-standard data formats were around for archival/experimental purposes.
  
  Mon, Sep 21, 2020 3:47am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Ken Tobe twitter.com/KidThorazine
  
  Zip was really useful when for DAW work for awhile untill decent sized thumb drives came out, just because burning cds was too slow for machines being used on time share.
  
  Mon, Sep 21, 2020 3:42am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Ken Tobe twitter.com/KidThorazine
  
  yeah and if you did digital music of phototography you'd need tons of zip discs if you werent dumping stuff to CD-Rs and even the cheap ones werent really cheap.
  
  Mon, Sep 21, 2020 3:38am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  I owned a zip drive for a hot second. CDRWs ended up being far cheaper and better.
  
  Mon, Sep 21, 2020 3:36am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- katattack twitter.com/dory_chris
  
  I wouldn't have survived college without those cheap burnable CD-ROMs. You'd buy 10 packs of Zip drives in bulk and every single one on the pack would fail.
  
  Mon, Sep 21, 2020 3:29am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- ☯King twitter.com/kingnewbs
  
  Mon, Sep 21, 2020 3:24am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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