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Thousands of Windows 95 Mini CDs Found After Mysterious Truck Crash in South Dakota (reddthat.com)
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[–] 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

This is fake/satire or something else fictional. It got me.

So they didn't look at the contents of the discs? I didn't read a single paragraph confirming the contents match the labels. I wouldn't be so sure that Windows 95 is on the discs.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    All I thought was those are definitely not windows 95. They probably did check the discs and found malware of whatever sort. I wouldn't be surprised if they're literally being used to install backdoors on legacy infrastructure systems that report back to China - crippling our infrastructure at a moments notice is a pretty strong weapon.

    Or maybe it's not malicious but hey I'm just some random guy on the internet shit posting, I just like to think up spy novel stuff happening irl because it's fun.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    just searched it the news site it is from is complete BS going on about dogs giving birth to things that aren't puppies and other fake stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    The format itself is weird. CD drives are already getting scarce, what about drives for these? They might as well be zip drives.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    A mini CD works in a regular CD or DVD drive. Usually there'll be a special recess to k line them up with the centre of the disc tray, but you don't really even need that.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    They don't work in most slot loading drives, only the tray loading, or spindle type.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I guess I wasn't counting a slot-loading drive as a regular drive.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I assumed you used regular to mean any drive, but the slot loaders weren't exactly common until Apple and Sony started using them. So not exactly regular.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    We had a mini CD adaptor in the house when I was a child (basically a plastic ring with clips in the cutout so it'd hold a mini CD and make it the same size as a regular CD), but everything that took CDs that we owned had an indentation for a mini CD already or had you put the disk on the spindle yourself. The two exceptions were later on, a Nintendo Wii, which would have worked as it played Gamecube disks and they were the same size, and a slot-loading car stereo, but we didn't have any audio mini CDs, so I've no idea if that would have worked better or worse with the adapter.

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