CD burners didn't have buffer under-run halting?
Ah, those were the days. Days when you knew that if data stopped going to the burner, you had but a couple of seconds before the laser ruined your disc.
I had a SCSI burner from Yahama, 8x and a stonking 4MiB buffer - that's a whole 3.4 seconds of buffer at 8x! But I still sat and watched Nero nervously as the buffers fluctuated.
But I needn't have worried - I was using SCSI. On several occasions my system locked up, but the burn would still complete.
Fond memories indeed.