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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Replying to @dory_chris @SwiftOnSecurity
I owned a zip drive for a hot second. CDRWs ended up being far cheaper and better.

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Replying to @aaronpk @dory_chris @SwiftOnSecurity
Zip was really useful when for DAW work for awhile untill decent sized thumb drives came out, just because burning cds was too slow for machines being used on time share.
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