The Floppy Disk (2011)

Re:The Floppy Disk (2011) by velcrovan on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:38AM (#37189249)

Minidiscs should have won for both audio and data. They’re perfect for long-term archival storage and they’re just plain cool. If only Sony wasn’t so shortsighted.

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Re:The Floppy Disk (2011) by roygbiv2 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @05:26PM (#37193392)

I wanted a data drive for my mini disks so bad back in the 90s. It just never happened and writeable CDs happened instead.

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Re:The Floppy Disk (2011) by chias on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:14PM (#37200504)

A guy I knew in high school back then was actually working on that: turning a commercial mini-disk player into a data storage drive. He said it was really difficult because the (lossy) compression was baked into the hardware. I don't remember if he succeeded to any degree.

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