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RE: Bring Back the Shielding
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Mon 26th Apr 2010 20:50
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RE: Bring Back the Shielding
by Zbigniew on Mon 26th Apr 2010 23:56
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RE[2]: Bring Back the Shielding
by nt_jerkface on Tue 27th Apr 2010 00:52
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RE[2]: Bring Back the Shielding
by abraxas on Fri 30th Apr 2010 21:41
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"Wouldn't CDs be better if they were encased in a plastic shield?
Remember s.c. "caddy" for CD? Always been wondering, why actually it didn't become a standard. "
We had those at my high school when I was younger. The only discs I remember was the encylopedia britannica set. When I bought a MD player later I thought of those discs and wondered the same thing. Why did they ditch the caddy for CDs?
RE: Bring Back the Shielding
by Doc Pain on Tue 27th Apr 2010 05:47
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Wouldn't CDs be better if they were encased in a plastic shield?
One word: MiniDisc.
The disc is inside a kind of caddy, and it's almost the (handy) size of a 3.5" floppy disk (in fact, it's a bit smaller, a size between the mentioned disk and a CF card). So both data carrier protection and form factor are quite intelligent.
With today's DVD drives, you really wonder why you need a drive the size of a whole computer (like a Mac Mini) to read a medium the size of a 5.25" floppy that hard unreadable when the surface (on the downside) is minimally scratched... or when it chemically or biologically dissolves into funny colours and patterns. :-)
RE[2]: Bring Back the Shielding
by Nathan O. on Tue 27th Apr 2010 16:38
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RE[2]: Bring Back the Shielding
by Zbigniew on Wed 28th Apr 2010 21:49
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When CDs became a big deal, I wondered how they could make them so sturdy that they didn't need a shield like a floppy disk (obvious differences in materials aside). It wasn't long before I figured out that CDs only live long if you handle them like they are precious.
Wouldn't CDs be better if they were encased in a plastic shield?