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		qingcharles 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell ... In those days though the blank CDs were $20+ each and took two hours to burn and had a high failure rate. I paid my way through college burning discs full of "warez".

anthk 24 days ago [–]

Well, in MP3 days (since ~1999) the CD prices plumetted down and they got a much better quality.

And yet the disk sizes where't that big (and tons of people still had less than 10GB).

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