Subj : Re: Columbia House
To   : Warpslide
From : Bob Roberts
Date : Sun Jan 03 2021 15:39:19

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

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

I never had an external writer.  I think my first burner was an Internal SCSI drive, with a caddy as well.  I think I got SCSI because there was less chance of the dreaded "buffer underrun" which would stop burning and ruin your disc in progress.

Bob Roberts
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