>I am sorry Dave, but I don't think Sony currently sells a MD data deck.
>It is my understanding that they used to sell them but they were very
>slow and have been discontinued for years. So, if you want to store
>digital computer data to a minidisc, you will most likely be using
>modern equipment and have to contend with ATRAC. This puts you back to
Before I got a day job (and a pay drop)
I used to work in a wafer fabrication plant (making IC's)
There were machines in there called nikon steppers which had MD Data drives there
I think! It said MD DATA on the drive but it had no make on it.
They were bought in 1993-94.
Only catch was it was for the old magneto optical discs which were about the
same size as a 1.4 floppy but about 10mm thick. They held 640 and 850 MB.
The looked the same as MD's only bigger.
When I first heard of MD's This is what I saw advertised.
When I finally got an MD Portable MZR-30 I thought that
Audio MD's and Data MD's might be different sizes and use the same technology.
I remember B4 Ireland had any in the shops acutally drawing the dimensions
of a MD disc out on paper and being wonderstruck by the tiny size.
(also thinking that all Id ever need would be 5-6 discs)
To This day, Ive never actually seen a MD data disc without its plastic wrapping.
I just presume they look the same as an audio MD.
Bryan
http://bullets.gothic.ie
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