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Sony's Entertainment Division probably had more to do with killing it than anything else. If the data drives were available with the music drives we probably w
by protomyth 5y ago
Sony's Entertainment Division probably had more to do with killing it than anything else. If the data drives were available with the music drives we probably would have seen some adoption given what was competing as external storage back then.
- rualca 5y agoI agree, minidiscs were a RW media format with a 140MB capacity that popped up in a time where 1.44MB floppy disks where still extensively used and the next-day thing we're CDRs/CDRW, both of which made it prohibitively time-consuming to write anything at all and were relatively fragile and inconvenient.
- protomyth 5y agoRemember Zip Drives and the click of death? MD would have been amazing especially if you could have just bought the same MD as the music.
- devoutsalsa 5y agoI had a 25-pin parallel port version of Zip Drive. It worked great, but it was SLOOOOOOWWWWWWW. Burnable CDs were more practical not too long after & then I only used it on computers w/o a CD-ROM.