Hi all,

 

I know this is slightly off topic, but I'd just like to point out that there's 
a distinction between Mini Discs and Mini CD's.

 

Mini discs are a Sony technology which are housed in a cartridge (68 × 72 × 5 
mm) with a sliding door, similar to the casing of a 3.5" floppy disk. They're 
mainly used by audio pros in the field. Unfortunately, they're fading away 
slowly.

 

Mini CD's are the 8 CM discs you don't want to insert into your Mac's 
slot-loading drive.

 

Thanks,

Blake
 


Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:30:08 -0500
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: mini cds

It's more a matter of slot-loading vs tray loading. No slot loading drive, Mac, 
Windows or Linux, will handle the mini-CDs. Had a friend try it a few years ago 
and they ended up taking their machine to the shop to get the disc back out. 
Tray loading drives will either have a second smaller indent in the tray or the 
disc snaps onto the central spindle so it doesn't matter. Today with CD media 
so cheap, nobody would use a mini disc.

CB

Richie Gardenhire wrote: 
Seems to me that the Mac Power PC's could accommodate a mini disk, but it's 
been so long since I had one, I can't remember.  Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, 
Alaska. 





On Jan 19, 2010, at 1:04 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Naw, this was like a one shot deal.  So it doesn't work, no problem.  I just 
walked it over to my pathetic old windows laptop.  Now that I come to think of 
it though, the pc I'm installing on is going to have a slot.  I suppose I 
should really convert these drivers. 


Ah well, onward...







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On 2010-01-19, at 4:26 PM, Josh wrote:


Hi
if you want to use mini cds maybe you could buy an external usb dvdrw drive and 
plug it in when you want to use mini cds?
 
 
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