And then there were the magneto-optical 3.5" disks which were replaced
by the cheaper Zip drives, but I digress :) From what I recall the Sony
minidisk recorders/players really compressed the audio hard so the
quality was weak. Kind of contradicted the pro-sumer audience they were
targeting with the devices.
CB
Blake Sinnett wrote:
Hi all,
I know this is slightly off topic, but I'd just like to point out that
there's a distinction between Mini Discs and Mini CD's.
Mini discs are a Sony technology which are housed in a cartridge (68 ×
72 × 5 mm) with a sliding door, similar to the casing of a 3.5" floppy
disk </wiki/Floppy_disk>. They're mainly used by audio pros in the
field. Unfortunately, they're fading away slowly.
Mini CD's are the 8 CM discs you don't want to insert into your Mac's
slot-loading drive.
Thanks,
Blake
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:30:08 -0500
From: cblo...@aol.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: mini cds
It's more a matter of slot-loading vs tray loading. No slot loading
drive, Mac, Windows or Linux, will handle the mini-CDs. Had a friend
try it a few years ago and they ended up taking their machine to the
shop to get the disc back out. Tray loading drives will either have a
second smaller indent in the tray or the disc snaps onto the central
spindle so it doesn't matter. Today with CD media so cheap, nobody
would use a mini disc.
CB
Richie Gardenhire wrote:
Seems to me that the Mac Power PC's could accommodate a mini disk,
but it's been so long since I had one, I can't remember. Richie
Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska.
On Jan 19, 2010, at 1:04 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Naw, this was like a one shot deal. So it doesn't work, no
problem. I just walked it over to my pathetic old windows laptop.
Now that I come to think of it though, the pc I'm installing on
is going to have a slot. I suppose I should really convert these
drivers.
Ah well, onward...
erik burggraaf
A+ certified technician and user support consultant.
Phone: 888-255-5194 888-255-5194
Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com <mailto:e...@erik-burggraaf.com>
On 2010-01-19, at 4:26 PM, Josh wrote:
Hi
if you want to use mini cds maybe you could buy an external
usb dvdrw drive and plug it in when you want to use mini cds?
Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com <mailto:jkenn...@gmail.com>
my blog is at http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net
<http://jkenn337.klangoblog.net/> (updated frequently). Tired
of Microsoft Windows and paying thousands for screen-readers?
try out NVDA, get a mac--, nvda--for Windows, or try out and
switch to grml, Ubuntu, Vinux, or knoppix-adriane Linux
desktops. Knoppix ubuntu and vinux-cli-max are the most
accessible for beginners. also try vinux-gui and encourage
those at www.cherrypal.com <http://www.cherrypal.com/> to use
windows-xp and nvda knoppix-adriane Vinux-cli-max or grml so
all blind people can have an accessible computer.
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