How did you rip music on "ancient" hardware?

[jesus2099]

@IvanDobsky

@Llama_lover

I have been ripping and tagging since I bought my lightning fast 286SX Turbo back a few decades ago.

How did you rip on that thing without a CD player? Were you jamming the discs in that 5.25" drive?

Yes funny. I think my 486 DX was only able to play heavily compressed mp2… 286? Maybe 486 typo.