A Historic Occasion!!! (involes magneto optical discs)

[flaninacupboard]

well,

today marks the day my faith in minidisc technology became 100% solid. several months ago, being the fool i am, i managed to throw an aging Sony MZ-R50 (in my opinion, one of the best looking players ever made) into a lake. yesterday the unit was retrieved! there's some slight rust, and a lot of muck. it took about ten minutes to pry open the battery compartment and the disc drawer. once i did, i found a very soggy minidisc. so, after leaving the disc to dry, i decided to test it. now bear in mind that it's been in a rusty player at the bottom of a lake, covered in mud and duck poo, and the lake even froze over at the beggining of the year. i was amazed to find it still works! the player is perhaps a different story, i'll let you know how that goes.....

so to my point, what's the most punishment you've ever given to a minidisc and still had it work?

[SLK001]

Wait a minute - you've got some 'splainin' to do!

1) Why did you toss it into the lake?
2) Why didn't you immediately try to retrieve same?
3) How do you know the minidisc was completely solid? Did you play it all the way through?
4) How was your "faith in MD technology" before you tossed same into lake?
5) What was the depth of the "immersion"? Did you experiment with the MD at other depths? Did you postulate as to these other "depth effects"?
6) Was "duck poo" the only "poo" in the lake?
7) What was the composition of the "lake mud"?

I'll have more questions later, but you can get going on what I have so far! After all, inquiring minds want to know!

[flaninacupboard]

but you didn't ask me what filesize it was!!!

1)
An accident. it was in my coat pocket, and i was feeding some ducks rather vigorously from a bridge. splash.
2)
it disappeared from view. it was only this week that the water went low enough to come into view.
3)
i'm playing it now, on track 7 already!
4)
pretty good i guess. i'd been relying on it for music on the move for years. i got a jukebox3 to replace the MD player.
5)
when i dropped it, probably 2.5 metres. when i retrieved it about 1.5 metres. no, this was accident not experiment
6)
No.
7)
Well, dead ducks, dead geese, dead frogs. poo. dead reeds. normal mud type stuff. it's quite smelly and green

After a quick clean i plugged the unit in. the screen says "low battery".

[hoyboy]

Thats pretty impressive. My brother mini-disc was playing up, so i opened it up and since he had been using it for exercise, some sweat had got into and and rusted an "arm" off a chip. I cleaned it up with some circuit board cleaner and it workd again, but he has since bought himself a new one with MDLP installed. It's a sharp though, not a sony.

[tgpo]

And don't forget to answer:

If a duck leaves the UK at 4:30am UK time, and a kid on a bike leaves Seatle, Washington at the same time USA time, with there being no wind, how long will it take for Minidisks to become popular in the US.


Give up?


Most places would have no clue what you were asking for if you asked for a Minidisk. We record to it at church and we have a few players here at the house, but they never took here in the states. I personally loved them, but too many N'Sync lovin' CD buyin people out there spending money. Sometimes I wish I could sway people's buying habits. Macs for everybody!!!

[indolikaa]

A long-time believer in the Minidisc format. While I haven't tested mine at the bottom of a lake recently...