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Absolutely, if I could buy a reasonably priced MD player I would use that as my primary music source. I love the look.

It's probably thanks to the matrix and the format being out of my reach as a teenager but oh so cool

Yeah I don’t know why but holding a semi transparent little plastic package with the disk visible inside thats about the same size a my Samsung 2TB USB 3.2 Gen 2 SSD and even knowing that it only holds 140MB or so which is probably less than the SRAM cache on the SSD still feels like the future despite being nearly 30 years old at this point.

Yeah I'd love it if someone made fake MiniDiscs out modern storage. Just having a cartridge would be awesome

I think it's the fact that mindisc and CDs and other removable media had physical motion that some people find fascinating. As computers have become more powerful they've also become much less mechanical, at least at the human interaction scale. The physicality of human-computer interaction has almost been reduced to holding up a glass screen and either passively viewing or endlessly swiping, at least for many people.

It's like old movie that feature computers. The always show the open real tape unit moving the tape back and forth to indicate "working".

I believe that's why Playdate become topic.

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