Your first CD Writer

[supaduper]

I bought a my first unbranded 2x writer(mitsumi.well nasty) in 98 and that quickly went south ! and got sick of coasters ,I then found the Pioneer range of writers I.E first bought 108 and last one bought was the 112d and found them reliable with a good laser life
Used MakeCD which I think for the time was a brill piece of software and well supported drives with specific drivers that you could tweek a little.
Infact I have just used MakeCD on my A1200 project for the first time in a decade ! love it

 

[edd_jedi]

I didn't get one until 2002 when I got a G4 iMac. My previous PC was a 1997 Compaq which only came with a CD-Rom.

 

[direktorn]

I had a Iomega Zip 100 (parallel port PC) before I even got a CD writer, sometime back around 1998.

Very good it was too, as most of the Uni PCs had a zip drive, great for downloading my warez ......... and some course work which could have fitted on a 1.44mb disk anyway!

I got a ZIP drive a year or two after the CD-R, I worked in an Apple Service center and repaired mac's all days. They had a fixed internet connection so I downloaded everything i could from Aminet onto a few 100M Zip's and took them back home to my A4000 and plugged the SCSI ZIP in Mac's loved SCSI as well so it was not hard to find ZIP drives But they where expensive.

My zip drive and disks still works, used one last week that haven't been in use for almost 15 years.

 

[bazzaq]

First up was a Yamaha cdr-101 4x scsi caddy model. £565 in 1996.