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by Cthulhu_ 597 days ago
But CD-R and USB drives weren't mutually exclusive in my experience; a lot of PCs couldn't boot off of USB yet and early USB sticks didn't have the same capacity (I believe my first USB stick was 64 MB?). But, burning a CD was more involved, and re-recordable ones were expensive. Some time later we found you can buy spindles of burnable CDs for pennies per disk.
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Most people didn't care about booting a CD, even more so a custom CD.