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Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had. (thetyee.ca)
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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

External USB ones are free in boxes of Frosted Flakes these days.

I have a genuine honest to goodness 5.25" bay mounted Blu Ray burner in my tower right now. Hey, you never friggin' know. It comes in handy every once in a while. There's a machine in my basement with an LS-120, a Zip drive, and a 5.25" floppy drive in it that all still work. Occasionally I still find myself needing to get some monumentally important ancient file off of some kind of floppy disk or other for somebody.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I was soo excited about ls120. Zip drive capacity in a 1.44 MB disc format with backwards compatibility. How could it not become the next big thing?

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but by the time they were introduced, even Zip drives were on the way out?

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Everyone was moving to CD-R.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Because it made that noise.

[–] homes@piefed.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lol, oh I know. I just really never liked burning CDs anyway. I had a mini disc player, lol.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice, I found the one other MiniDisc user on Lemmy. It's an honour to meet you.

[–] homes@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really thought they were the future. I should have known better.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still think they're the future. People are going to come around, you'll see!

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I think I stopped seeing blank minidiscs before CDs, cassettes, and even VHSs in my local Daiso.