I had an Apple PowerCD back in the day.

It was really slow -- specifically, it was a single speed CD-ROM drive. And as a reminder to you young folks, single speed CD-ROM drive read speed was 0.15 megabytes per second (Compare that to today's NVMe drives that have a sustained read speed of 7500-14500 megabytes per second).

But hey, like everything Apple, it looked really cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpy6uuok66Q&t=386s

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Apple's Early-90s Multimedia Accessories

The computer industry was swept by the CD-ROM and multimedia trend in the early 90s -- and Apple saw it as a prime opportunity to differentiate its computers...

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Back in the mid-to-late 1980s, the Commodore Amiga was, generally speaking, superior to Apple systems and PC-compatibles, which were often mocked by Amiga owners. 😉

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Gen Z and "Old Tech" | Cool As Heck

https://cool-as-heck.blog/post/gen-z-and-old-tech-t9-9bzth

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Gen Z and "Old Tech"

I've seen some stories recently about Gen Z buying old digital cameras. And I know from my Gen Z teenagers that they are into buying cassette tapes now too. I feel like whatever retro tech...

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