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For people a little younger than me, there are both floppy disks and minidiscs here.

Minidiscs were used for data almost exclusively in Japan, they are small rewritable CDs in a plastic shell.

(I am the only person I know to have owned a Minidisc player.)



The Ah! My Goddess clips showed a famicom disk card https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Famicom_Zelda_Disk.p...

Legend of the Galactic Heroes was a WORM disk: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41eTWeeR8XL...

I also owned a couple minidisk players, a real underrated format.


A lot of those are not minidiscs, but 5.25" and 3.5" magneto-optical or discs inspired by them. (Minidisc is actually a small MO disc, btw).

In somewhat later material, DVD-RAM also shows up in caddies.




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