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by jonjon10002 1517 days ago
Gopher was a pretty brief blip in my career, but I remember being insanely excited about it for about three months of 1991.

Apple's OpenDoc was a pretty neat idea, until I actually tried it on an anemic Centris computer in 1996.

And I still have a few hundred MiniDiscs and a couple of players in storage. From 1997-2002 or so, those were in daily use on my subway commute, until the iPod came along.
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ecliptik 1517 days ago
While not as huge as vinyl or cassettes, there is still interest in MiniDiscs and new albums are still released on the format.

- https://www.minidisc.wiki/releases/start?srt=%5Ereleases.dat...

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jonjon10002 1517 days ago
Interesting - I'm curious if the small labels doing releases are using recordable magneto-optical MDs. (I'm assuming so.)

In its heyday, there were a limited number of prerecorded releases, mostly from Sony. They didn't use M-O discs, and were pressed aluminum/plastic inside the shutter case, similar to a CD. They were supposedly much cheaper per-unit, but with a high setup cost.

I still have a handful of the prerecorded ones. My favorite is Pink Floyd's _Delicate Sound of Thunder_, which was two MDs in a special dual case that fit no storage system ever imaginable. Just looked these up on eBay, and I think I figured out my retirement plan.

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