On: Ask HN: Why are 5 inch USB floppy drives so uncommon?

[arthurcolle]

in a similar vein, I love those mini CDs but they seem to have completely disappeared from the face of the earth. It's a shame, they were super cute.

[interestica → arthurcolle]

I think with a lot of 'slot style' disk drives, those were incompatible. Made them a lot less practical.

[myself248 → interestica]

I concur, especially given that automotive CD players are almost universally slot-loading. (And the rest are caddy-loading changers, which also only work with 120mm full-size discs.) That's the only thing I've burned CDs for in the last decade or so, thus 80mm minis are right out.