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Almost all digital formats die in obscurity. 3” floppies, 5v SmartMedia, Jazz disks, and DAT were good ideas in the moment that were not good ideas a moment lat
by brudgers 2y ago
Almost all digital formats die in obscurity. 3” floppies, 5v SmartMedia, Jazz disks, and DAT were good ideas in the moment that were not good ideas a moment later. The logistics of reading even popular formats like Qic 40 and ADAT today are hard.
- NikkiA 2y agoThe most ironic thing, IMO, is that at the time everyone seemed to be holding their breath for Castlewood's 'Orb drive', which promised the perfection of a fast and big storage media. It was delayed so long that by the time it actually reached the market it didn't get noticed.
- brudgers 2y agoNever heard of Orb, but once upon a time, I was waiting for Tandy’s THOR. Before that Flieschman-Ponds cold fusion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor-CD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor-CD