Re: A2 Trade/Swap???? site discovered - What are your thoughts on such a site?

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 30 Jun 2000 08:41:42 +0200, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)
wrote:

>Some 6-8 years ago, CD-ROM players usually had CD-ROM cartridges: you
>inserved your CD in the cardridge, and then you inserted the
>cardridge in the CD-ROM player.  Yes, you could buy extra empty
>cartridges, and keep your CD-ROM's in cartridges all the time.

Yes, that idea was good and would have been better had the CD
manufacturers put the CDs in caddies instead of people having the buy
them themselves.

>Ever heard about "backwards compatibility" ?  :-)

Yes but you don't always have to make things backwards compatible.
Especially if you are making it backwards compatible with a bad idea.
:-)

The DVD manufacturers could have gone with a cartridge system and made
people get caddies for their CDs if they wanted to use them in that
player.

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