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by functionmouse 7 days ago
> and be fine.

lolno those things were a finicky failure prone analog nightmare.

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Compared to what? CDs that would skip on movement or scratch and skip worse? CD-R that would delaminate? Vinyl records? The continuous-loop abomination of 8-track?

Compact cassette tapes were profoundly robust compared to everything else.

> CD-R that would delaminate?

What kind of cheap-ass CD-R discs were you buying?