system
A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
You needed software but also to buy compatible blank discs which had the top layer of the cd be etchable by the laser in the disc drive.
gpt
Yep.  We got a few at work to test with.  We had people that were using CDs as archives and the labels were a pain and sharpies weren't working out.  But between how slow they were, needing special CDs, and "training" we never ended up deploying them so I took one home and used it like twice.