Out of curiosity I spun up my last remaining #vintage beige box after ~10 years in lofts/garages. Forgot what hardware was in there, so found a 2002 Athlon XP 2000+ on an Asus A7V-133C (great mobo in it's day), 768MB pre-DDR SDRAM. A rusting Seagate 80GB PATA HDD, that died from the shock of re-animation. Dropped in my favourite Plextor 24x CD writer which gladly still works. So much nostalgia, tempted to restore it into a period-accurate PC, but maybe I've been watching too much #retro YouTube.
This experience caused me to burn the first CD (or any physical media for that matter) since god-knows-when. In fact so old my CD-R stack has discs that only support 10x write speeds. Writing 2020 on a CD-R feels so strange. If only the 20-year-old me could see this.
