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532: The Meat Part of Multitasking

Accidental Tech Podcast

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The Mac's CD-ROM Drive

The first Mac drive was in a caddy too. It just cost 10 times as much as the PC one. My favorite part of the CD-ROM era was at the end when they got really fast. Every time the CD would be accessed, everything on the computer would freeze for like four seconds. You hear this jet engine taking off in your computer. They're speaking of multitasking. Multi tasking is too expensive.

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