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  2. Optical disc - Wikipedia

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    The reverse side of an optical disc usually has a printed label, sometimes made of paper but often printed or stamped onto the disc itself. Unlike the 3 1 ⁄ 2-inch floppy disk, most optical discs do not have an integrated protective casing and are therefore susceptible to data transfer problems due to scratches, fingerprints, and other ...

  3. MiniDVD - Wikipedia

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    MiniDVD or 8 cm DVD (also "3 inch DVD") is a DVD disc with a reduced diameter of 8 centimetres (3.15 in). It has been most commonly used in camcorders due to its compact size. [ 1 ] The most common MiniDVDs are single layered and hold 1.4 GB of data, but there are variants that can offer up to 5.2 GB of storage space, through a combination of ...

  4. Floppy disk variants - Wikipedia

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    A Maxell-branded 3-inch Compact Floppy Disk. The floppy disk is a data storage and transfer medium that was ubiquitous from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s. [1] Besides the 3½-inch and 5¼-inch formats used in IBM PC compatible systems, or the 8-inch format that preceded them, many proprietary floppy disk formats were developed, either using a different disk design or special layout and ...

  5. Optical disc drive - Wikipedia

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    The video signal was stored as an analog format like a video cassette. The first digitally recorded optical disc was a 5-inch audio compact disc (CD) in a read-only format created by Sony and Philips in 1975. [56] The first erasable optical disc drives were announced in 1983, by Matsushita (Panasonic), [57] Sony, and Kokusai Denshin Denwa (KDDI ...

  6. CD-ROM - Wikipedia

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    Key work to digitize the optical disc was performed by Toshi Doi and Kees Schouhamer Immink during 1979–1980, who worked on a taskforce for Sony and Philips. [4] The result was the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA), defined in 1980.

  7. DVD - Wikipedia

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    The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) [9] [10] is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan .

  8. Disk cartridge - Wikipedia

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    Disk cartridge or Optical disk cartridge may refer to: A 1960s computer disk pack which has a single hard disk platter encased in a protective plastic shell; Removable disk storage media; Zip disk; A 3 1 ⁄ 2-inch Floppy disk; An optical disc or magneto-optical disc enclosed in a protective plastic sheath called a Caddy (hardware) Ultra ...

  9. Magneto-optical drive - Wikipedia

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    A magneto-optical drive is a kind of optical disc drive capable of writing and rewriting data upon a magneto-optical disc. 130 mm (5.25 in) and 90 mm (3.5 in) discs are the most common sizes. In 1983, just a year after the introduction of the compact disc , Kees Schouhamer Immink and Joseph Braat presented the first experiments with erasable ...