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Jonathan Corbet

Ah the memories one finds at the bottom of a desk drawer... Once upon a time this was a really cool thing.
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@corbet only real experts can use it.

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@corbet I've got one of those on my office wall.

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@corbet I had no idea they made… truncated CDs? what shape even is that

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@clarfonthey It was business-card size, meant to fit in a wallet.
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@corbet read only memories, specifically

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@corbet @clarfonthey and they didn't resonate well with some cd drives. bad vibes

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@corbet @jarkko It is **still** a really cool thing.

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@corbet @clarfonthey A bit of a novelty item even at the time but widely enough distributed at least in a promotional context for me to remember the phrase "bootable business card"

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I liked those, but they vibrated a lot and despite looking cool, one of them experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly inside the CD-ROM drive, damaging the drive.

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