Re: [OT] copying minidisk (MD) tracks

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Fri, 26 Nov 1999 10:37:22 +0100


On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 12:50:31PM -0800, Audin Malmin wrote:
> Does sony still make MD data drives? I know at one point they
> were unable (by design) to read music MDs...but with the popularity of
> CD-R drives for burning CDDA I wouldn't be too surprised to see sony
> come out with newer MD data drives that could burn audio MDs...

I was in Tokyo about a month ago and Sony had a very nice A4 LCD screen
with a scanner attachment that saved your scanned pieces of paper onto
minidiscs, so they definitely still have data MDs. It was interesting
to see how popular MDs are in japan compared to europe.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
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painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson

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