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It's a 3.5 floppy/mini-CD combo drive!

It's a 3.5 floppy/mini-CD combo drive!
Yet more floppy torture. This is almost understandable, but still, there's a reason floppy disks look the way they do, and CDs look the way they do. Duh! That little indentation on the CD drive tray really isn't for holding your coffee! It's for those 3-inch mini-CDs! Roo-Hoo, Scooby-Doo!

Credit: Reprinted with permission from Rod Shelley
                                                       

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