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Thousands of Windows 95 Mini CDs Found After Mysterious Truck Crash in South Dakota (reddthat.com)
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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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