spacemonkey
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gentlegreen
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OICspacemonkey said:The 1gb Hi-MD i mentioned in my last post was as close as they came I think. The software let you convert regular md's in data discs as well, they held 250mb roughly iirc. Pants though, i only bought one cos my old mini-disc player got pinched and the shiny world of hard-disc players were still out of my price range.
@sony
Yes I was about to buy a HiMD player with the intention of using it as a flash drive.
The thing that was missing was a cheap, data-only drive for PCs.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
The Iomega Jazz drive (or jizz drive) was worse than the ZIP - I lost 2 gig of portfolio work to two of them - never to be seen again. 
Any one remember SyQuest 40mb drives? - man they were cumbersome - especially if you used them for virtual memory for photoshop. Like having a speeding hamster on a wheel on your desk.
Any one remember SyQuest 40mb drives? - man they were cumbersome - especially if you used them for virtual memory for photoshop. Like having a speeding hamster on a wheel on your desk.
spacemonkey
I Love Noodles
Why was the Disney Lion King Cd-rom so bad then??
G. Fieendish
Snark Hunter
Re: Data MD
Sony did as I recall....
The discs themselves cost £14 at the time & could store 140 Mb of data....
The external Data MD drive was £450....
However to use it, you had to install a scsi controller card to your PC, to connect the external drive.... (it's rivals used a printer port loopthrough to connect their drives to a PC...)
Sony also launched said format, in the middle of a format war between Iomega & it's main commercial rival at the time, SyQuest....
(Iomega's Zip was at the time £150 for the drive & Syquest's EZ-140 drive was about the same price...).
Given the above, is it any wonder that Sony quietly buried the format...?
Sony did as I recall....
The discs themselves cost £14 at the time & could store 140 Mb of data....
The external Data MD drive was £450....
However to use it, you had to install a scsi controller card to your PC, to connect the external drive.... (it's rivals used a printer port loopthrough to connect their drives to a PC...)
Sony also launched said format, in the middle of a format war between Iomega & it's main commercial rival at the time, SyQuest....
(Iomega's Zip was at the time £150 for the drive & Syquest's EZ-140 drive was about the same price...).
Given the above, is it any wonder that Sony quietly buried the format...?
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