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[NTP66]

lol, wut

I paid under $30 for every single Lite-On DVD burner I have ever owned, and I'm older than you.

[dodint]

Gatekeeping '90s DVD burner sales. Amazing.

[faftorial]

lol, wut

I paid under $30 for every single Lite-On DVD burner I have ever owned, and I'm older than you.

Was in this reply to my post? Maybe I'm misremembering. It was an internal drive.

Also, you're older than 58?

[nocera]

lol, wut

I paid under $30 for every single Lite-On DVD burner I have ever owned, and I'm older than you.

You're older than faftorial? I recall them being between between $250-$500. This would've been mid-late 90s. Here's a story from 1997:

Today, I'm happy to say, the cost of these recorders, now called CD-recordable, or simply CD-R, drives, has come down to a somewhat affordable level. Consumer-grade CD-R drives from some leading manufacturers can now be had for somewhere in the $500-to-$600 range. For many people that's still a lot of money, but for many others it may be well worth the investment.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9708/19/cdrom.lat/

I don't know what dark alley you bought those $30 burners from, but I wasn't aware of it.

[NTP66]

lol, wut

I paid under $30 for every single Lite-On DVD burner I have ever owned, and I'm older than you.

Was in this reply to my post? Maybe I'm misremembering. It was an internal drive.

Also, you're older than 58?

Sorry, no that was a response to nocera. Turns out he massively overpaid for his burners.

[nocera]

Hmph. The earliest DVD players in the mid 90s cost around $1k. I'm not sure how you got a DVD burner for $30 around that same time but you must've been a very smart 14 year old.

Oh, look, here's another article citing the cost of these burners. This one was written in 2005 and says prices were as low as $180 for a burner, down from $1,000 when they were released "two years ago" aka 2003.
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2003/0 ... g-cheaper/

You sure those burners you bought were $30?

[eddy]

Lite-on for me too! Good times

[NTP66]

How far back are we going now? If we're talking 90s, you're looking at the late 90s. Not only was Newegg a thing back then, but so were computer fairs in NYC, of which I went to a few. You could get hardware dirt cheap at those events.

[skullman80]

I certainly don't remember them being that cheap either. Even CD burners were not super cheap when I was a teenager. I remember going to the computer show as a teenager at the Monroeville Expo mart and them being pretty expensive especially as a teenager/young adult.

[dodint]

Yeah, NTP66 is just being obstinate here. I want to see receipts from 1998 for this $30 DVD burner that he bought in a back alley in NYC.

[faftorial]

My burner was just a CD-R, not DVD-R. No way were DVD burners $30 in the late 90's.

[nocera]

Eh even CD-Rs. The first CD-R burner under $1k was released in 95 by HP and cost $995. You telling me 2 years later you could get one for $30? Come on, man.

[NTP66]

Best I can do is a receipt from 2004:

[nocera]

I am surprised that it was that low in 2004. The article I posted above was actually from 2003 which stated the lowest was $180, down from $1k in 2001. It's also hilarious that the price has apparently not gone down at all in 20 years.

I still maintain that back in my day, which in this case I'm referring to the mid-late 90s, having a CD-r burner was a symbol of wealth.

[willeyeam]

Why TF do you have that receipt is a much more pressing question

[eddy]

Best I can do is a receipt from 2004:

I have this same exact one for the same price in my newegg. Also bought a NEC DVD+r burner for $49 in 2005

Edit, nevermind, mine was $17.99

[NTP66]

Why TF do you have that receipt is a much more pressing question

Old habits die hard - I have virtually every e-mail receipt for damn near everything I have ever purchased online. I will say that the Newegg one is one of the oldest.

[faftorial]

I am surprised that it was that low in 2004. The article I posted above was actually from 2003 which stated the lowest was $180, down from $1k in 2001. It's also hilarious that the price has apparently not gone down at all in 20 years.

I still maintain that back in my day, which in this case I'm referring to the mid-late 90s, having a CD-r burner was a symbol of wealth.

I can guarantee I was not "rich" when I bought mine.

[nocera]

I am surprised that it was that low in 2004. The article I posted above was actually from 2003 which stated the lowest was $180, down from $1k in 2001. It's also hilarious that the price has apparently not gone down at all in 20 years.

I still maintain that back in my day, which in this case I'm referring to the mid-late 90s, having a CD-r burner was a symbol of wealth.

I can guarantee I was not "rich" when I bought mine.

300 bucks as a 12 year old kid felt unattainable.

[dodint]

I had to take all my Christmas and birthday money (only a few days apart) and then some to get an authentic Nedved jersey for about $300 and that felt monumental.

[tifosi77]

The first computer I bought for myself was an HP Media Center thing. This was in 1999 or so (might be a bit off on that year), and the whole shebang cost about $1,100 and iirc came with a CD-R.

[NTP66]

Going back further than that, I remember buying Gateway computers when I was a kid. Getting that cow-print box and all. Good times, man.

[Viva la Ben]

I worked for the Gateway Country Stores 97-03. The cdrw and dvdrw drives ranged from $200-$50 back then

[scb147]

Yep, Gateway 2000 was the first PC I bought for myself, in 1996. I believe it was an original Pentium CPU too. I "upgraded" to the 17" monitor, where the depth of the monitor was at least twice the size of the screen plus front bezel. Fun times carrying that around.

[skullman80]

I remember buying a pc from staples that the pentium MMX chip in it and thinking it was the coolest thing ever...think it was an HP. After that though I started building my own stuff.

Redneck Rampage was a game I remember playing.