CD players skipped during large physical jolts was because there was no technology that could store even a small part of the CD in a memory buffer. CDs were bigger than hard drives, you couldn't just buy a chip to hold enough data to wait for the laser to start reading again.
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In 1982, the Commodore64 cost an inflation-adjusted $1,600 - and had 64KB of RAM. A compact disc outputs 176KB. Per second. The CD is basically a temporal aberration and should not have existed at all.
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In the grand scheme of things, the CD barely did exist at all

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I wouldn't have survived college without those cheap burnable CD-ROMs. You'd buy 10 packs of Zip drives in bulk and every single one on the pack would fail.
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I owned a zip drive for a hot second. CDRWs ended up being far cheaper and better.
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Replying to @aaronpk @SwiftOnSecurity
CD was around for 30+ years. I don't think it counts as "barely existed." I think for a lot of people CDs "existed" starts mid to late 90s, but they came into existence in the early 80s and non-standard data formats were around for archival/experimental purposes.
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