World's smallest CD-ROM

win32

I think this qualifies:
https://archive.org/details/Capture2_201903

586 KB! Have these people never heard of floppies? Too bad there were no AOL installers, Acrobat Reader or registration wizards to pad out the disk.

SomeGuy

Nope. Back when CD burning was very common, people were often blissfully unaware of how much or how little data they were putting on a CD. And they would shit themselves when I could tell them roughly how much data was on a CD just by holding it up to the light.

nick99nack

@SomeGuy said:
Nope. Back when CD burning was very common, people were often blissfully unaware of how much or how little data they were putting on a CD. And they would shit themselves when I could tell them roughly how much data was on a CD just by holding it up to the light.

I loved doing that. I was in high school and there was a spindle with a mix of blank and used (but unlabeled) discs sitting on a table. They were all mixed up and the teacher told me to figure out which ones had been used. He thought I was full of shit when I did it just by looking at them. I bet him $10 that I was right and you should have seen the look on his face when he lost lol

yourepicfailure

And I thought this was a thread about mini 80mm cd/dvds. You know for those handicams.

Probably software once on a floppy, but someone thought it would be a good idea to put up an iso instead of a disk image.

But yeah in my place of work usb drives are forbidden, so there's a nice budget which ensures a steady supply of 60 disc spindles of dvds and cds.
Then you realize my coworkers burn a few kb pdf on the disc and then toss it when done. What about the other 4 gb of space? So this habit still going on today.
I usually burn, delete, burn and keep going until the either disc fails or I run out of space.

I remember the day I brought a dvd-rw into the office lol.