I went as far as sourcing a SCSI drive with a dedicated card just to get results. Fond memories of clicking Burn and slowly backing away from the desk to let it do its thing.
replyI saw my friends doing that and stayed out of that game completely until Plextor released their first 8x burner -- the PR-820.
replyBy then, it was all pretty well sorted despite that burner having no underrun protection.
The IBM Ultrastar 9ES drives kept it fed very well on that otherwise quite slow Slackware box.
Burn a CD, compile a kernel, and browse the web while watching some VCD rip of a music video in one corner of the screen? No problem.
Last year's birthday present from me to my wife was a mix CD. I attempted to recreate Cereal Killer's Greatest Zukes Album, briefly mentioned in Hackers (1995): "All great artists that asphyxiated on their own vomit!" My criterion was that the artists featured had to have died of a drug or alcohol overdose before September of 1995 (when Hackers was released), and four of the tracks had to be by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Cass Eliot, and the Blues Brothers (satisfying the Belushi requirement), who are named in the film.
replyShe still listens to it when working.