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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (www.xda-developers.com)

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mini cds were never common or universial. CDs where. So were cassettes and vinyl. There were a lot of niche formats. 8track got really close to common, I will say they didn't but someon should argue otherwise and you should consider their point.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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 2 points 2 days ago

Huh I always called the mini CDs minidiscs and was wrong