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    1 year ago

    80’s, early 90’s. I think from '92 or so onwards, CD-ROM drives became standard equipment for home computers, but until the late 90’s they still came equipped with a floppy drive, if only to boot into recovery mode after a crash.

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      Because CDs weren’t commonly writeable until almost a decade later.