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Homer J Simpson:


helius:
It's interesting that CD-ROM units were already available in 1985, so must have been introduced at least as early as 1984. Interesting, because for several years after, it was still more common to install software from floppies or tape cartridges rather than CD-ROMs. By about 1991, Unix workstations began to supply the operating system on CD-ROM, and the first MacOS with a CD-ROM release was System 7.0 in 1991 as well.

Whales:
From various old computer magazines I have read: early CD drives were very expensive, even 1x ones, let alone 2x and 3x.

Anecdotal story about early CD burners: having no buffer or ability to handle physical disruption.  The former meant your computer could not be used whilst burning.  The latter meant bumping the table ruined a whole burn.  All at low burn speeds :D

Daixiwen:
Yes the CD rom drives still costed a lot in the early 90's.
My first CD burner was a 2x burner with a very small buffer and Windows 98. Blank CDR were also expensive, and I confirm that I wasn't doing anything with the PC as long as it was burning! The CD burning software displayed a big bar with the buffer status and if it ever reached 0 before the burner was finished, the CDR was toasted.
Windows NT was a bit better with process priorities, and crashed a lot less than 98, so with NT4 I could dare use the PC a bit while it was burning.

rdl:
I bought my first CD-ROM in a "Sound Blaster Edutainment CD 16 Multimedia Kit". Best I remember it was well over $500, maybe $600. Just guessing I'd say I probably bought it around '94 or '95. It definitely predated Windows 95. The kit included a pile of software, a Sound Blaster 16, and the CD-ROM. Since I'm a bit of a pack rat, I still have the original box. I think my old Super NES and Genesis consoles are stored inside it now. I don't think the drive and sound card are still around.

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