• Captain Aggravated
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    3 months ago

    CD-Rs and CD burners were first available in the early 90’s but they were “we’ll take the helicopter out to the yacht” expensive. By 1998 they were starting to become normal consumer-grade equipment. I had one as a teenager in the year 2000, along with a Rio CD-MP3 player.

    I’ve still got the computer I had in later high school and college, a Pentium 3 rig that I plan on turning into a sleeper PC for my midlife crisis. It has a DVD-ROM drive and a CD burner. I wonder if they’re SATA or some older “we don’t do it this way anymore” buses? I remember that machien talking about SCSI during boot-up.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      My drives in the early 2000s were SCSI, the connector was a flat wide grey cable. I remember my first SATA disk as being a great improvement, still had jumpers though.

      In any case, the game is not older than CD burners, like I said, I was buying burned CDs before that, and I lived in a small South American city, so they should be very accessible for North American/European folks.

      • taladar
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        3 months ago

        True, I actually misremembered Halflife as being from earlier in the 90s than it really was.