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This is cool. As a side note - I recently found my old MiniDisc player in an old shoebox. Popped in a new AA battery, and it still worked perfectly! Some funny
by amanzi 6y ago
This is cool.
As a side note - I recently found my old MiniDisc player in an old shoebox. Popped in a new AA battery, and it still worked perfectly! Some funny notes... I can't believe it lasts for ages on a single AA battery. And, I had forgotten how noisy they are, with constant whirring and spinning noises coming from the player as it seeks tracks.
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- johnchristopher 6y agoWell it does seek tracks since it's basically a high density floppy.
- bayindirh 6y agoActually it's HAMR disc. :D
- johnchristopher 6y agoI totally messed things up, minidiscs were optical discs and `MiniDiscs use rewritable magneto-optical storage to store the data. Unlike the DCC or the analog Compact Cassette, the disc is a random-access medium, making seek time very fast.` Sorry.
- bayindirh 6y agoWe all mix things up sometimes. My comment's supposed to be soft hearted and humorous, not a stern one. We're humans, here's HN. We're just chatting, and misremembering things is alright. Have a nice and safe weekend. :)
- acomjean 6y agoI tried mine out a year ago and they all worked (the ones I had recorded). I think the MO technology they used was pretty robust (compared to recordable cds and dvds)
- grishka 6y agoThere is something soothing about these noises. They reassure you that the device is doing something. I've never seen a MiniDisc player in person, but I remember PSP with an optical drive that made similar noise while your game loaded.
- 1-6 6y agoThe Windows Task Manager does that for me. I like staring at graphs to reassure me the computer has not stopped.
- bombcar 6y agoHard drive seeks used to be the way I'd tell if the Windows 98 SE machines were doing something or just hung - if you didn't hear the hard drive seeking it was probably time to reboot.