Mini CD-RW (late 1990s - ) | Museum of Obsolete Media (original) (raw)
Mini CD-RW (CD-Rewritable) are 8cm versions of CD-RW and can hold anything from 156 MB (18 minutes of music) to 210 MB (24 minutes of music).
They can be written to in spindle-based or tray-loading CD-RW burners (and read in spindle-based or tray-loading Compact Disc players) but there were also some devices that were specifically designed around the mini CD-R/CD-RW.
One of these was a number of models in the Sony Mavica line of digital cameras, the first of these being the MVC-CD1000 released in 2000 that could record to mini CD-Rs. The MVC-CD200 and CD300 introduced in 2001 added support for mini CD-RW. When using a Mavica camera, 156 MB capacity discs needed to be used, otherwise data loss could occur.
There was also a portable mini CD-R/CD-RW burner called the Imation RipGo! that was introduced in 2001. This could burn MP3 files to disc, and also play them back.