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

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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Minidisc was insanely good technology; the problem was that it was crazy expensive proprietary tech. So almost no one used it, and never really took off.

But I loved mine.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe it is cool but my point is that old storage tech offers no benefits to what we have now. It's not a bad thing when technology is superceded with zero compromise

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It offered amazing benefits 30 years ago though. And the current tech you enjoy today was made possible thanks to what was developed years ago.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

Sure but we don't live in 30 years ago. The Wright Flyer is a crappy airplane and sticks are crappy weapons, too.