Those totally look like the isolinear chips from Star Trek

  • HopeOfTheGunblade
    link
    fedilink
    171 year ago

    Yeah, looks like write once. Which, we got a lot of mileage out of CD-Rs, libraries are useful.

    • @Chobbes
      link
      81 year ago

      I feel like we don’t appreciate the history of data storage enough! It’s kind of wild looking at how different the world was when CD-Rs came out. They could store substantially more data than a typical hard drive of the time and were dirt cheap. So you would get bulletin boards hosting content from optical drives and stuff. It’s also (partially) why you would have to use discs for games in the past, instead of just installing them to the hard drive. When hard drives are expensive it’s probably better to just stream music and assets from an optical disc instead of taking up precious space. Sometimes you could play a game (or part of it) without the disc, but you wouldn’t get music because that was left on the disc.

      • Froyn
        link
        fedilink
        51 year ago

        Sometimes you could even put the game in the CD player and listen to the game tracks!

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      41 year ago

      I would even argue most storage is used as write once storage. From backup systems to libraries, a lot of data is data we want to just record, and never overwrite.