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I just love all the attention MiniDisc is getting again in the 2020s. MiniDisc is truly how the future of audio would have looked like in a parallel universe.
by fudgy 4y ago
I just love all the attention MiniDisc is getting again in the 2020s.
MiniDisc is truly how the future of audio would have looked like in a parallel universe.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoDid anyone ever use them for data storage on computers? IIRC they held about 200MB so they'd have been a welcome (and robust) upgrade from Zip drives. I know there were "different" disks for the Yamaha multitrackers, but I'm not sure what was different about them.
- fredoralive 4y agoSony did release drives, DGR looks at one in this video for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwtCBj5jEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwtCBj5jEs . It's yet another example in the weird graveyard of replacements for the 1.44MB floppy that didn't catch on.
- zppln 4y agoNeo did.
- voxadam 4y agoMD Data[0] had a capacity of between 140 MB and 1 GB depending on the version. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD_Data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD_Data
- roygbiv2 4y agoBack in the day I was all about minidiscs, I seriously wanted a data drive but it just never happened unfortunately.
- parker_mountain 4y agoI have contemplated and sketched out what would be required to build a slot loading sd card reader. Ultimately, I believe a vertical mount door loading mechanism* is cheaper, more reliable, and certainly has a decent aesthetic. * much like a vertically mounted cd player