• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Can someone tell me, why weren’t optical discs (mechanically, ergonomically) designed similarly to floppies? In a protective envelope with a window.

    Sony PSP discs had something like that. More expensive and impractical from looks, the window part was always open and cleaning it from dirt is inconvenient if untouched for long. But then the cover for that window wouldn’t break off, and the looks solve the problem of “looking obsolete” that arises with clueless baboon crowds. Sony engineering back then somehow evokes feelings in me.

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      15 days ago

      Og CDs came in a protective case like that, as did some large optical discs. But I guess it was just cumbersome and needlessly expensive to make the hardware?