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My dad found his order form from our 3rd computer (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by preludeofme to c/pcmasterrace

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Those were some good specs back in the day... And the price 😯

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[–] TechAdmin 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

2X speed was impressive for the time too :)

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

By 1998? Nah, not really. I think I had at least a 16x by then with my stock prebuilt.

[–] frunch 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think there may be a difference in measurement and that might where the discrepancy is. According to Wikipedia's entry on optical drives:

The 1× speed rating for CD-ROM (150 Kbyte/s) is different from the 1× speed rating for DVDs (1.32 MB/s).

So if that was indeed a 2x DVD drive, it would be pretty comparable (if I'm interpreting all this info correctly): 16x150,000 bytes per second= 2,400,000 or ~2.4 MB/s and the 2x DVD speed would be 1.32 MB/s x2= ~2.6MB/s

Pretty close!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Ah wait, I misread it as cd. Didn't realize it was DVD.

[–] Dkarma 2 points 11 months ago

Cd maybe but not DVD.