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actionfromafarlast Tuesday at 8:57 AM2 repliesview on HN

And it could have been the successor to the floppy


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masklinnlast Tuesday at 9:54 AM

There were already plenty of “successors to the floppy” in the dustbin of history (floptical, Iomega zip, LS120, …). None of them was competitive as a distribution format, or at all once CD-R became widely available.

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ofrzetalast Tuesday at 1:47 PM

You mean like the Zip drive? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive

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