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You had to hold it up to a candle. (startrek.website)
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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It was so popular you could walk into a Walmart and buy blank cds and put it into most computers that have a cd drive in the last 15 years and write it from Windows Media Player.

Even today you can still do it for cheap. USB external CD drive with write capabilities: $18.99

https://www.newegg.com/p/105-00B4-00001?item=9SIAKF3DSX2734&amp%3Bcm_sp=SP-_-1860010-_-0-_-2-_-9SIAKF3DSX2734-_-Cd+drive-_-cd%7Cdrive-_-8

50 Blank CDs, $16.60 https://www.newegg.com/verbatim-52x-700mb-cd-r/p/N82E16817507007

If you wanted to write to a CD more than once you could buy CD-RW's which had the ability to be formatted (wiped clean) and used again.

The hardware to write disks was so cheap it became standard. The cheapest of laptops or desktops would have the ability built in. example:

$168.99 - Cheap junk computer from Walmart (I would not recommend that computer, just figured it would show just how cheap a computer gets that has it built in) https://www.walmart.com/ip/Dell-Latitude-E5420-Laptop-Intel-i3-WiFi-DVD-CDRW-250GB-Win-10-Professional-HDMI/376791632?wmlspartner=wlpa&amp%3BselectedSellerId=100001344&amp%3Bgclsrc=aw.ds&amp%3B=&amp%3Badid=22222222228376791632_100001344_153828919326_20723081503&amp%3Bwl0=&amp%3Bwl1=g&amp%3Bwl2=m&amp%3Bwl3=679332641651&amp%3Bwl4=pla-2235097983966&amp%3Bwl5=9013636&amp%3Bwl6=&amp%3Bwl7=&amp%3Bwl8=&amp%3Bwl9=pla&amp%3Bwl10=129884431&amp%3Bwl11=online&amp%3Bwl12=376791632_100001344&amp%3Bveh=sem&amp%3Bgad_source=1&amp%3Bgclid=Cj0KCQiAy9msBhD0ARIsANbk0A_ZhAcoOfd9b3WACPKd_QXPuq3NIZoFnxorRXOK1Xx-CwQz7SO1jSAaAlfhEALw_wcB