Top 10 Extinct Storage Media: How many do you know?

Ten removable storage media -- including floppy disks, hard drive cartridges, and magneto-optical disks -- that were released between 1971 and 1998. But how many do you know? Or even remember using?! My video on making animation at the BBC in the 1980s and 1990s, where I first encountered 8 inch floppy disks, is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkOOMYWgn14 My previous video on the Atari Portfolio is also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_GaZDkhU0 And all of my retro computing videos are linked on this page: https://explainingcomputers.com/classic_computers.html SELECTED REFERENCES: For the interested, further information on some of the media featured in this video can be found as follows: IBM page on the invention of floppy disks: https://www.ibm.com/history/floppy-disk IBM System 3740 brochure: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/brochures/IBM3740DataEntrySystem.pdf Excellent RetroCMP page on floppy disks: https://retrocmp.de/fdd/diskette/diskette.htm 8 inch floppy disks retired by US military in 2019: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a29539578/air-force-floppy-disks/ Fuji 2 inch floppy disks: https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2018/11/06/history-1989-2-inch-floppy-disk-lt-1-made-by-fujifilm/ Excellent Maxoptix page on the state-of-play of magneto-optical discs: https://maxoptix.com/the-state-of-magneto-optical-discs/ Sony 3.5 inch MO Discs brochure: https://pro.sony/s3/cms-static-content/file/58/1237486481358.pdf Sony 5.25 inch MO Discs brochure: https://pro.sony/s3/cms-static-content/file/72/1237486492172.pdf Sony MDH-10 MD-Data data drive: https://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MDH-10.html More videos on computing and related topics can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers And more videos on film and other making, plus retro tech, can be found on my Christopher Barnatt channel: http://www.youtube.com/@ChristopherBarnatt Chapters: 00:00 Titles & Intro 00:36 Floppy Days 06:24 SyQuest vs Iomega 12:39 Solid State 14:35 Magneto-Optical 10:45 Our Binary Containers 18:13 End of an Era #floppydisk #SyQuest #Iomega #Zipdisk #Jazdisk #DVD-RAM #MDData #AtartPorfolio #retrostorage #retrocomputing