What is the status of Sonys push to have MDs replace CD-ROMs?
Sony wanted MD-Data to replace 3.5″ floppy-disks (1.4 Mb, 2.8 Mb and 21 Mb floptical), not CD-ROM (a well implanted medium in the computer industry by now, and currently cheap). MD-Data’s first incarnation was the MDH-10 SCSI drive, it provided 140 MB of data storage on an MD but was slow, expensive and incompatible with the Audio MD format (Data drives cannot read or write audio MD data except in “play” mode, which does not provide computer access to the data.). Sony subsequently released the MDM-111 for use in the IBM Thinkpad, but neither drive became popular and the MD-Data format has effectively been shelved, and appears only in certain niche products such as the MD still camera and MD document scanner.
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