Question for the older folks- did you ditch vinyl when cd arrived?

Yes but not consciously or deliberately.

I was at boarding school when CDs happened. The form factor of CDs together with the fact that my Phillips CD 151 player seemed to sound cleaner than my LPs, meant that I first started acquiring CDs in preference to LPs and later just stopped freighting the vinyl. My LPs stayed at my parents’ house along with the Garrad turntable until they downsized and got rid of everything. 
 

Now, in my 50s I am back to vinyl but with a deliberate approach to getting the very best out of it. 

I had a high quality TT when CD's first came out. Of course I purchased the best CD player available at the time based on the advice of the Audio shop I did business with. I liked CD's at first but after a while they sounded clinical compared to vinyl. Now I stream everything, better all around in my opinion.

I put my lps on the shelves in my hall closet and bought cds ,like crazy.Then in 2013 I sold my lps 1100 for $1,400 bucks...but then the vinyl craze hit and I bought over 2,000 lps from people who where selling them cheap...I bought alot of Beatles, Doors,Jethro  Tull,alot of new stuff....oh well.Oh and 5 new turn tables....hey I'm a wacko.

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I started with cassettes- had about 250…Then moved to CD.  I have over 1,000 CDs and then moved into vinyl.  Have about 750 records.  With streaming it helps me buy stuff that I don’t have to gamble on.  I can listen first then go find it on the format I enjoy most….the LP.  Streaming also plays a part when I’m lazy and wanna rock out

I kept my vinyl collection, but it started getting hard to find LP's, so I jumped on the CD bandwagon. I was in Japan and Korea from 1984 until 1999. The base exchange sold only CD's starting around 1986 or so. 

When I got back to the states I started buying vinyl again. I just missed the sound of vinyl and the ritual of playing records.

At the end of my CD buying days, I had around 1500. My vinyl collection consists of around 3000 LP's.