CD Shaped Like Retro Floppy Disk! - Neatorama

Here's something retrotastic: a CDR shaped to look like 3.5 in floppy disks!

The disks can hold 200 MB of data (compared to the 1.22 MB it is modeled to look like) and comes with blue, red, green, and yellow "labels." http://www.designboom.com/shop/floppydisk.html - via Geeked Info, thanks Ed!

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Imagine the reactions when you pop the floppy into the CD drive! I have a huge box of floppies, I used to use nothing but them. . . .

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I'm pretty sure that floppies held 1.44 MB, not 1.22, but I could be wrong.

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It looks like a piece of plastic glued onto a normal CDR. It would have been much better if it was a true square disc like the business card CDRs. I could make those at home easily.

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Awesome idea! I don't know about $14 awesome, but still pretty cool. And yes jake, that would make a great Blue Monday release!

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Do NOT insert into a slot-load optical drive. Or maybe do it just once to learn why it's a really, really, really bad idea.

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The MP3 format was completed September 1990... LONG before the 1993 internet release of Depeche Mode's album. QuickTime (with audio and video compression) was first released in 1991. The proprietary predecessor codecs that later became MP2 and MP3 date back to the mid 80s. And audio compression was around even earlier, with phone companies wanting to squeeze more calls in.

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