Part of what makes watching mid-90s anime so cool was seeing how they drew their computer technology and hoping that, just maybe, they used some exotic storage medium in Japan instead of floppy disks (although oddly, seeing the regular PC hardware piled up in racks was part of what made Serial Experiments LAIN so compelling). And while the Japanese use mostly the same media formats as we, every once in a while some strange bit of storage pops out straight from the pages of some sci-fi manga. We won’t even have any need or desire to use the I-O Data iVDR format, but it’s sort of fun to know it’s out there.
As Liam points out, I bet this is the same way the Japanese feel about us when they see some television spy bust out a Jaz Disc.
40 and 80GB iVDR media [TechJapan]
