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| CD Caddy |
Caddies date at least to the Capacitance Electronic Disc, which used a
caddy from 1976 to protect the grooves of the disc.
Some
early CD-ROM drives used a mechanism where CDs had to be inserted into
special cartridges or caddies, somewhat similar in appearance to a jewel
case.
Although the idea behind this,a tougher plastic shell to protect the disc
from damage was sound, it did not gain wide acceptance among disc
manufacturers.
Drives that used the caddy format required "bare" discs to be placed into a
caddy before use, making them less convenient to use.
Drives that worked this way were referred to as caddy drives or caddy load(ing),
but from about 1994 most computer manufacturers moved to tray-loading, or
slot-loading drives. |
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