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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 7 days ago

Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 7 days ago
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A major flaw brought this promising format to its end

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  • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    mini cds are not minidiscs, this is a minidisc

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    minidisc is a magneto-optical format, cd is just an optical format

    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      Huh I always called the mini CDs minidiscs and was wrong

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