As someone who worked sales in that time period, yes, it was the younger crowd (Gen X) that adapted much better to burning CDs. A lot of the baby boomers had difficulty with understanding certain key concepts and details. … And instructions to be honest…
As for the “Boomer” commenter above: the military and government in the USA still burns to CD for a variety of reasons (no, I won’t go into them). So if someone is military, a government employee, or even just a contractor, there is a chance that at some point they will need to burn a CD, regardless of age.
Indeed, but I actually like this system: There are no breachable servers between the doctor and the patient, at least a few years ago everyone had a CD drive at home (I know that’s changing), and handing out a disk is way cheaper than a flash drive.
Yeah the CD being cheaper than the USB drive is a great argument for this use case. Unfortunately you can then make the argument that it’s even cheaper to just upload the data to some website. Which then requires you to register, and then sells all your data, and then your private shit eventually ends up on the dark web when they get breached because they cheaped out on IT costs.
Redundant, privacy compliant storage is expensive. And then you have to deal with customer people that can’t figure things out, and then there’s the barrage of bots trying to break in. Optical media is dirt cheap and most people know what to do with it.
Really? Cause in my time in the army I never once saw any kind of military information being saved to cd. Not once. Never. Even in the early 2000s that was just never a thing. Ever.
I requested my medical records from my time in the military in 2014 and received them on CD. Which was funny because I didn’t have a computer that could read them at the time, and I still haven’t read them. Turns out the information i needed was already available to the people giving my c&p exam
As someone who worked sales in that time period, yes, it was the younger crowd (Gen X) that adapted much better to burning CDs. A lot of the baby boomers had difficulty with understanding certain key concepts and details. … And instructions to be honest…
As for the “Boomer” commenter above: the military and government in the USA still burns to CD for a variety of reasons (no, I won’t go into them). So if someone is military, a government employee, or even just a contractor, there is a chance that at some point they will need to burn a CD, regardless of age.
In Germany MRI and CT images are regularly handed to patients on CDs.
Germany is also technologically 30 years behind the rest of the world…
Indeed, but I actually like this system: There are no breachable servers between the doctor and the patient, at least a few years ago everyone had a CD drive at home (I know that’s changing), and handing out a disk is way cheaper than a flash drive.
Yeah the CD being cheaper than the USB drive is a great argument for this use case. Unfortunately you can then make the argument that it’s even cheaper to just upload the data to some website. Which then requires you to register, and then sells all your data, and then your private shit eventually ends up on the dark web when they get breached because they cheaped out on IT costs.
Redundant, privacy compliant storage is expensive. And then you have to deal with customer people that can’t figure things out, and then there’s the barrage of bots trying to break in. Optical media is dirt cheap and most people know what to do with it.
Same in the US.
Really? Cause in my time in the army I never once saw any kind of military information being saved to cd. Not once. Never. Even in the early 2000s that was just never a thing. Ever.
I requested my medical records from my time in the military in 2014 and received them on CD. Which was funny because I didn’t have a computer that could read them at the time, and I still haven’t read them. Turns out the information i needed was already available to the people giving my c&p exam
Shut up. They’re supposed to forget about us.