A picture of two disks on a beige background. On the left is a normal 3.5" floppy disk with a greyscale display showing the contents, and on the right is a Fujitsu 3.5" magneto-optical disk also showing the contents but with a colour backlit display.

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Nanoraptor (nanoraptor@bitbang.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 19:13:33 JST Nanoraptor

Despite the 3.5" Magneto-Optical format's many advantages - A much larger, more reliable and resilient storage, bright backlight, and a high-resolution active matrix colour screen - it still failed to make inroads against sales of the older ubiquitous greyscale 3.5" floppy disk.

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