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lol, wut
I paid under $30 for every single Lite-On DVD burner I have ever owned, and I'm older than you.
I paid under $30 for every single Lite-On DVD burner I have ever owned, and I'm older than you.
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Gatekeeping '90s DVD burner sales. Amazing.
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Was in this reply to my post? Maybe I'm misremembering. It was an internal drive.lol, wut
I paid under $30 for every single Lite-On DVD burner I have ever owned, and I'm older than you.
Also, you're older than 58?
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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:lol, wut
I paid under $30 for every single Lite-On DVD burner I have ever owned, and I'm older than you.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9708/19/cdrom.lat/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.
I don't know what dark alley you bought those $30 burners from, but I wasn't aware of it.
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Sorry, no that was a response to nocera. Turns out he massively overpaid for his burners.Was in this reply to my post? Maybe I'm misremembering. It was an internal drive.lol, wut
I paid under $30 for every single Lite-On DVD burner I have ever owned, and I'm older than you.
Also, you're older than 58?
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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?
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?
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Lite-on for me too! Good times
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My burner was just a CD-R, not DVD-R. No way were DVD burners $30 in the late 90's.
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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.
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Best I can do is a receipt from 2004:
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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 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.
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Why TF do you have that receipt is a much more pressing question
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I have this same exact one for the same price in my newegg. Also bought a NEC DVD+r burner for $49 in 2005Best I can do is a receipt from 2004:
Edit, nevermind, mine was $17.99
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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.Why TF do you have that receipt is a much more pressing question
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I can guarantee I was not "rich" when I bought mine.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.
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300 bucks as a 12 year old kid felt unattainable.I can guarantee I was not "rich" when I bought mine.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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I worked for the Gateway Country Stores 97-03. The cdrw and dvdrw drives ranged from $200-$50 back then
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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.
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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.
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