[nate_02]

Is it safe to view business card CDs (mini CDs) in the slot loading drive. It just seems to me like it might get stuck.

[Hous68]

Nope. They're a bad idea in slot-loading drives. Sorry.

[Daracle]

I would think they are a REALLY bad idea

[Kevin Moon]

They get stuck in the drives. I remember reading on the apple forums a long time ago about someone that had to send it in to apple to get the mini cd out.

[nate_02]

I'll just use my PowerMac to view them.

[Cadaver]

Several years ago you could buy adapter rings that would make a 3" CD fit in a standard CD tray or in slot-load car CD players. I've not seen them in a long time, however, and I don't know how a PowerBook slot-load mechanism would take to it anyway.

I don't even trust those odd-shaped CDs (round ones don't bother me) in a standard drawer loader. I only feel comfortable using those in my old iBook with the tray where you clip the disc physically onto the spindle. Can't come flying off & get stuck.

[DigitalEl]

I don't even trust those odd-shaped CDs

Weirdest one I've seen was a Christmas tree-shaped holiday "card" I once got from an old client. I wouldn't even put that in my beige box at work. Sometimes you gotta wonder what people are thinking. And those things can't be cheap to produce.

[ingeniero]

Originally posted by nate_02:
Is it safe to view business card CDs (mini CDs) in the slot loading drive. It just seems to me like it might get stuck.

I know that the mini CD's would get stuck in the slot-load drives in powerbooks, but I'm curious why they do work in the older iMacs...My cousin has a 'blue-dalmation" iMac with slot-load, and it comes in and out with no problems, and of course it reads the disc.

[tooki]

Old slot-load drives did support ROUND mini CDs (8cm). They do NOT support non-round discs!

The newer drives (which I think are thinner) don't have the guides for small discs.

If you read the manual that comes with the computer, it'll tell you to not use any discs other than 12cm round discs.

tooki

[danbrew]

What gets me is that if you were the type of person who would think that a business card CD rom would be cool than one would think that you would also be smart enough to realize that nobody uses them. I wouldn't put one of those things in a regular CD rom drive. Sheeeesh.

[nate_02]

Originally posted by danbrew:
What gets me is that if you were the type of person who would think that a business card CD rom would be cool than one would think that you would also be smart enough to realize that nobody uses them. I wouldn't put one of those things in a regular CD rom drive. Sheeeesh.

In this case, its for a company I'm looking to work with, they already gave their presentations, so I was curious to see what was on their CD.

DVDs work better anyway for things like that which require video.