On 11/09/2011 06:35 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:04:14 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>
>> The size was standardised. That's why all tray-load CD drives have 2
>> wells, one at 120mm and another at 80mm. A disk any other size wouldn't
>> fit into the smaller well properly.
>
> Well, Dr. Wikipedia disagrees with you.
>
> ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_cd

"Since the mid 1990s, all tray loading players have wells for the CD3."



Unless you're saying it wasn't standardised, in which case

"When Mini CDs were first introduced in the United States, they were 
initially marketed as CD3, in reference to their approximate size in 
inches; larger CDs were called CD5, despite the fact that both CD 
specifications are defined solely in terms of metric units."

The phrase "both CD specifications" seems to indicate that there's an 
official specification for the mini-CD standard.

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