This was cutting edge tech… I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs…

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      25 days ago

      Those of us who can remember used those to save programs. It could take an hour or more if you had a large enough tape save a single file.

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      A lot of people did: home, portable, car. But a lot of people had also left them behind for ordinary CDs, CDs full of MP3s and dedicated MP3 players like Rios and iPods.