I wish Sony had made a serious effort to make MiniDisc a data format. They did make data drives, but they were slow, expensive, and barely available. 140 MB da

I wish Sony had made a serious effort to make MiniDisc a data format. They did make data drives, but they were slow, expensive, and barely available. 140 MB data (in 1993!). Nearly infinite rewrites. Nature of the medium is that bit rot is almost impossible without direct physical damage. I enjoyed them in the twilight of their existence, just before MP3 players started to have reasonable storage capacities and prices (mine were/are all used). And the ones I recorded in 2002 still sound just fine if I play them today. It was a great replacement for cassettes; too bad it never caught on in the US.