[fudgy]

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.

[parker_mountain]

I 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

[Gordonjcp]

Did 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.

[voxadam]

MD Data[0] had a capacity of between 140 MB and 1 GB depending on the version.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD_Data

[roygbiv2]

Back in the day I was all about minidiscs, I seriously wanted a data drive but it just never happened unfortunately.

[fredoralive]

Sony did release drives, DGR looks at one in this video for example 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]

Neo did.