Subj : Re: Columbia House
To   : Bob Roberts
From : Warpslide
Date : Sun Jan 03 2021 15:31:20

On 03 Jan 2021, Bob Roberts said the following...
 
 BR> I was just thinking about this last night!  Remember the sticker sheets
 BR> thewould email, and you could get 10 CD's for a penny, but only if you
 BR> bought 5more at full price in a year?

I actually forgot about the sticker sheets!  I think that's how I first signed up, though I can't remember where I got them.  Maybe from the newspaper my parents would always buy?

 BR> After you signed up waiting waiting for that folded cardboard box withthe  BR> stack of CDs.  So exciting!

Yes!  It was funny (or not) when we'd come home from school & check the mailbox at the end of our driveway.  If there was only one box in there from Columbia House I always hoped it was mine.

 BR> Then they would mail you a card and you'd haveto decline whatever garbage  BR> they wanted to send you.

I forgot about that as well:  "Do nothing and automatically receive this album" - More times than not I remember not wanting those or never hearing of that album/artist.

 BR> I recall scouring the internet for CDRW specs, trying to find the best
 BR> drivewhich could rip fast and with accuracy, while also writing all the
 BR> various formats.

My first burner was an external HP 1x burner that attached to a parallel port.  You had to put the CDs in a caddy and then that caddy into the burner.

It was reliable for the most part, I didn't have a lot of failed discs, though I did have some.  Which did sting back then when they did fail as discs were about $5 /ea.

 BR> It was so exiciting to make the jump from 4x to 8x writing.  Then pretty  BR> soon you have 24x.  

Yup, my second burner was an internal 8x burner, no caddy required.  I think by then I was able to buy 10 packs of writable discs.

 BR> I still have some spindles I never used.  I bet theyare long rotted.  I  BR> probably have a thousand CDRs in stacks that are alluseless now. 

I still have a few writable discs upstairs in a spindle, haven't touched them in years.  Like you said, I'm not sure if they'd even work anymore as they're so old.

I do also have a silver CDRW up there, no idea what's on it, it'd be 
interesting to check and then see if I can still erase it.  Though the last time I used discs there was a drive built into my laptop.  I'd have to use my USB burner now.


Jay

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