minidisc player
pile of junk

and don't get me started on walkie talkies... (although awesome when you are 10)
( zulu eh?, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 13:50, 8 replies)

Oh
I used to love my minidisc player, it's just a shame that their window of usefulness was so short lived.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 13:52, closed)

^This in spades^
Ace it was. I had a stereo with a triple minidisc changer in it too, the height of fucking decadence I can tell you.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 29 Sep 2011, 13:59, closed)

Also
Loved mine and kept it for years, no complaints from me.
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 15:41, closed)

I bought one aswell
I spent more time getting stuff onto it than I did actually listening to it.
(Studentken is looking for motivation on, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 13:57, closed)

Minidiscs were great!
They filled the brief period between CDs and CDRs. How else could you make a mix tape with the high quality sound* and random access of a CD? Granted it was impossible to make a mix tape for a significant other because the only three people who owned a minidisc player were us here on this thread.




*yes yes I'm aware it was compressed with ATRAC but it was still better than tape
( AWPS, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 14:13, closed)

I had a mini-disc player.
I might still have it in a cupboard somewhere unless it got eBay'd. I got quite a lot of use out of it.

As for walkie talkies, they are awesome. My brother and I had some Rambo ones when we were kids and it had a morse code button on it, complete with code guide.
(ThatNiceMan thought he was being funny, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 14:14, closed)

aah the joy of trying to use morse code
at least SOS is easy enough
( zulu eh?, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 14:25, closed)

As a listening device, they went obsolete VERY quickly.
As a recording device, I was using them for several years. I only switched over to digital when it started to die (even Sony have given up on customer support for them).
( Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Wed 5 Oct 2011, 10:52, closed)