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Early models of the AppleCD CD-ROM drive used caddies! Our Mac LCs at school had them. They were, indeed, very cool.

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It’s just so freaking cool. I’m imagining the chrome utopia we would be in right now if this had continued. Yes I get that it made the blanks cost more, but it’s just so cool and commercial CDs needed a case anyway.




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