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trollied
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Toshiba HD-DVD firmware archive
Sony have always made strange decisions surrounding storage. Not selling Minidisc as a floppy drive successor, when the competition was gigantic ZIP discs, was a biggie. (I am aware of the NetMD etc, I had one)
goosedragons
on Feb 23, 2023
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They did. MD Data was a thing. It just flopped super hard. It was way too expensive over Zip disc for a minor storage increase and size decrease.
LGR did an Oddware video about it a few years back:
https://youtu.be/CzwtCBj5jEs
trollied
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TIL, thank you!
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