This was cutting edge tech... I remember the excitement of replacing floppy discs with CDRs...
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I remember the moment I realised my fancy new Walkman could read data CD-Rs and I could fit all my mp3s into one 700mb disc. I felt insane, majestic, limitless.
Then you'd get a copy protected disc that wouldn't play at all in the disc man, but you could copy it to a CD-R and that'd play just fine. To disable the copy protection you just hold shift while the cd tray closes.
I ended up even buying some rewritable mini discs because they were so much smaller and still good enough space for some mp3 files.
I didn't find out about mini discs until years later. Best I knew was the lost technology of CD-RW