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I can remember a time - not so long ago - when the thought of buring information on a CD was so HUGE that no one could fatham filling one up. That was also back in the days when 1 gig was a big hard drive and we were still laughing that Bills Gates had said "No one will ever need more RAM than 640k". Now my almost 400 mgs of RAM seems inadequate for some of my needs.
A CD burner used to come as a writer - or a re-writer. Now all CD burners are re-writing burners. The distinction now is in the CD disk itself. Re-writing disks can be written over. A regular blank CD can record information, but those files cannot be corrected, changed or rewitten in any way. Rewritable disks are more expensive than disks that cannot be rewritten. Regular burning CDs are very inexpensive. I've seen people use them to hold projects that contain large files. I've used them for presentations, CD burner I've used the CD burner to remove data from my machine for archive purposes. My hard drive seems to get smaller and smaller every year. I use my digital camera and scan photos on a regular basis. I have scanned many of my family's old photos for safe keeping. I repair them in Paint Shop Pro, and now I have records of my family back to the late 1800's. The photos have to be scanned on a very large dense scale so I can repair them. It's not unusual for these files to be 30 megs or more. I've also burned my own information onto a CD that can be read in any computer to transport that information to another person. CD burners can also be a temptation. Never use them to copy copywrited material. I lose things easily - so I have been known to make two or three copies of photos that are very presious to me - incase a CD gets scratched. Maybe I'll get a safe deposit box to keep those CDs in.... :) Go To Page: 1 |
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