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by Gordonjcp 1315 days ago
Did anyone ever use them for data storage on computers? IIRC they held about 200MB so they'd have been a welcome (and robust) upgrade from Zip drives.

I know there were "different" disks for the Yamaha multitrackers, but I'm not sure what was different about them.

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MD Data[0] had a capacity of between 140 MB and 1 GB depending on the version.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD_Data

Back in the day I was all about minidiscs, I seriously wanted a data drive but it just never happened unfortunately.
Sony did release drives, DGR looks at one in this video for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwtCBj5jEs . It's yet another example in the weird graveyard of replacements for the 1.44MB floppy that didn't catch on.
Neo did.