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Mine was probably FCKGW-RHQQ2-i forget the rest of the key.
Last week for me. I burned a FreeDOS 1.4 CD to install it on my recently acquired Pentium 4 desktop.
I mean, I’d have still used a thumb drive at this point. I/O is way better.
I am not sure if old P4 machines have the BIOS support for USB booting. I know newer chipsets will.
Plop go brrr. I used it on my windows me laptopto install Damn small Linux
A lot of retro PC people use drive emulators you slot an SD card loaded with images files in. E.g. PicoIDE
I have a newer P4 machine and it supports USB boot
I have an older i7 that does not
I guess it depends more on the bios
I’ll go burn a cd right meow. Idgaf.
~10 years ago i bought one of those sony cd players with the giant carousel that holds like 200 discs. i probably spent a week burning entire discographies.
They still made them 10 years ago, or are you misremembering? 😁
I recall a friend bought one in the early 2000’s, which is like twenty years ago (ouch, that hurts).
thrift store find! i had to replace the belt that opens the door, but other than that it works perfectly ^^
That is very cool!
Jokes on you. I just burned a cd for my kids car. Yes he has a cd/tape deck.
I still have a spool of 100 fresh discs plus a dozen RWs.
that day is yet to come.
That day came for me when I didn’t have a spare flash drive and wanted to fresh install my OS. I was a king that day.
The Initial D soundtrack so I could listen to it in my 90’s Toyota Corolla.
This was in 2019.A fan of eurobeat found in the wild! Hello!
I still do it though.
I also just ripped a CD last night.
It was Massive Attack Mezzanine and the cd is still in my old car for all I know.
That’s a good fuckin album
I burned a Blu-ray like 2 weeks ago. I also routinely burn CDs because my relatively new car still has a player built in (though I think in the last 3 years, Subaru got rid of it on newer models)
My old car has a cd drive and really good speakers, and I have an old Linux computer with a cd/dvd drive, and cds are really cheap, and I pirate music, so the last time I burnt a cd was yesterday, and not out of novelty but because its the only way I can listen to music in the car.
I will probably burn another cd in the future, but ig you never know, lmao.
If your car has an aux you could use Bluetooth to aux. But yeah a lot of old cars don’t. Mine didn’t so I was in the same situation as you for many years burning CDs! They could be MP3 CDs though, very fancy ;P
Does it have to be a CD? Can’t it be a DVD?
Or vinyl.
Oh damn. I only have the one vinyl and I don’t even know if it still works or not.
without even realizing it
staring intensely at the CD-R drive
“Come on baby, you’ve got at least one more in you!”
without even realizing it
staring intensely at the CD-R drive and loaded revolver
“This is it. This is the last time I will burn a copy of Stoner Jamz Mix '98.”
Jokes on you, I just bought an old ass dell optiplex. That shit came with a cd drive. I actually didn’t even check to see if it would burn tho. And I don’t have a CD player. But I could! Probably…
Would have been circa 2006, a fully loaded Windows XP SP2 + hotixes all-in-one installation CD, because I had to reinstall XP on my and friends and family I did tech support for every 6 to 9 months. Otherwise it would gum up and start having unfixable performance or outright faults.
I saw Vista on the horizon and said fuck that shit. Created an Ubuntu install bootable USB drive and dropped all tech support. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve had to install Linux from scratch. I use Arch btw.
