“I would like to maintain the floppy driver”

Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by gambiting on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:10PM (#20596173)

You just reminded me of a curiosity that were the DVD-RAM discs - they came in plastic cases with a sliding window(exactly like a floppy) and there were special drives that accepted them in the case. However you could remove it from the case and most regular DVD drives would read and write them without any issues.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-RAM

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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by ohyeshedid on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:38PM (#20596435)

My first 1x burner used a cartridge and slot.

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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by lathiat on Saturday August 03, 2019 @08:59AM (#20600185)

Some good coverage on DVD-RAM & caddys from technology connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecH3OU0R4ls [DVD-RAM: The Disc that Behaved like a Flash Drive]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxt5A0KJ9nw [Early CD-ROM Drives: Why Did They Require a Caddy?]

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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by timthorn on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:29PM (#20596353)

The early Apple CDROM drives also took a caddy that you put your disk into.

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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by mattl on Friday August 02, 2019 @09:59PM (#20598160)

The proposed Nintendo/Sony CD-ROM was also caddy based.

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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by gambiting on Saturday August 03, 2019 @04:22AM (#20599268)

I just remembered that UMD discs for the PSP came in a plastic case(which stupidly didn't include a sliding window, leading to the discs getting scratched even though they were in the case).

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