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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [M, B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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[–] 12 points 5 months ago (10 children)

A couple years ago on reddit I saw a post lamenting the death of....the minidisc.

Old portable storage tech sucked. Good riddance is right

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    Except for music. It is ok to mourn the loss of universal physical media for music.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Mini cds were never common or universial. CDs where. So were cassettes and vinyl. There were a lot of niche formats. 8track got really close to common, I will say they didn't but someon should argue otherwise and you should consider their point.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Minidisc was insanely good technology; the problem was that it was crazy expensive proprietary tech. So almost no one used it, and never really took off.

    But I loved mine.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe it is cool but my point is that old storage tech offers no benefits to what we have now. It's not a bad thing when technology is superceded with zero compromise

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