Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:15:15 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > retard wrote: >> You must be young then. I got my first CD-ROM drive with my Pentium 75. >> The first 1x external CD-ROM drives were pretty expensive. I think one >> used to cost around $600..800. > > Eh, my first CD-ROM drive was $1100 or so.
Was it that expensive? Anyway, the world has changed so much. You can probably find a decent dvd+rw drive for $30 or $40 now. My original point was that people like us who listened to CDs in the 80's quite likely still possess real hi-fi cd players or integrated cd/amp/tuner systems. These systems are unaffected by the cd copy protection methods.