atrocity wrote: > peter;332369 Wrote: > >> Nah, they should've made PC mini disk drives from day one. Being able to >> >> play/read, write/record and copy on a PC would've been a huge thing >> back >> then. Now, they were left behind by the CD which - eventually - did >> allow that. Too afraid of 'piracy', of course.... >> >> > > But remember that at the time the MD was introduced, you needed an > extremely expensive computer to properly do audio recording. Heck, I > bought a new PC after having MD for a couple years and even it had a > tendency to drop a lot of samples when I tried to use it as a > recorder. >
If I remember correctly it was also the time that 1.44 MB floppies started to get really small. A successor was badly needed. Also you don't have to record on a PC to be able to play/copy stuff. > Not that I really mean to defend Sony here...they eventually did come > up with a PC MD drive, but of course they deliberately crippled it for > music use which, combined with its absurdly slow speed, made it largely > uninteresting to just about everyone. > > I still find it less nerve-wracking to capture analog sources via a > standalone CD recorder, then copy the bits into the computer for > prettying up. > I remember thinking the MD would be really cool to have if only I could use it to store and copy music on my PC. Of course, then MP3 arrived. In the early days I remember playing MP3's put quite a load on my PC. Moving a window caused the music to stutter. That soon got fixed though... Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
