{"id":714,"date":"2010-11-15T12:26:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=714"},"modified":"2010-11-15T12:35:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:35:48","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-cd-rw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/714\/retro-scan-of-the-week-cd-rw","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Philips CD-RW Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/philips_cdrw_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/philips_cdrw_small.jpg\" alt=\"Philips CD-RW Drive Ad - 1997\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;This product is not intended for the unlawful copying of copywrited material.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rewritable CD-RW discs seemed like a good idea when CD-Rs (which could only be written once) still cost $10 a piece.  But as the price of CD-Rs fell to pennies per disc over the course of about five years, the CD-RW format&#8217;s popularity quickly faded.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From PC World, November 1997, p.103 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  When did you burn your first CD-R or CD-RW?  How did you feel when you did it?  What did you write to the disc?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This product is not intended for the unlawful copying of copywrited material.&#8221; Rewritable CD-RW discs seemed like a good idea when CD-Rs (which could only be written once) still cost $10 a piece. But as the price of CD-Rs fell to pennies per disc over the course of about five years, the CD-RW format&#8217;s popularity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}