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You had to hold it up to a candle. (startrek.website)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Tbf there are absolutely rewritable CDs and DVDs:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-RW

Though compatibility with regular players was a bit of a crapshoot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's true. CD-RW "burners", to keep accurate phrasing would've been well described as "melters". They melted the medium, and erasing it was just melting it back.

I still miss them, so convienent in the mid 2000s era cars that could play CDs loaded with decent quality MP3s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

But I remember you could only do it X times before you'd actually be able to corrupt your data. Never had that happen, but it always felt a bit scary.

To be fair, practically every medium from tape to HDD to SSD has a limit. But CD-RW was a lot more vulnerable to data loss in my memory.