I think it's the fact that mindisc and CDs and other removable media had physical motion that some people find fascinating. As computers have become more powerf

I think it's the fact that mindisc and CDs and other removable media had physical motion that some people find fascinating. As computers have become more powerful they've also become much less mechanical, at least at the human interaction scale. The physicality of human-computer interaction has almost been reduced to holding up a glass screen and either passively viewing or endlessly swiping, at least for many people.