There was a brief period of time when upgrade modules for computers looked like upgrade modules for computers.
@nina_kali_nina We all just wanted Sony cyberdeck aesthetics without the Sony made-up-a-proprietary-lock-in-and-nobody-cared formats and protocols.
Sony Vaio P11Z – Wikipedia

@kkarhan @nina_kali_nina https://www.msx.org/wiki/Sony_HB-10 ← This was more what I was going for, or maybe the HB-F1...
Sony HB-10 - MSX Wiki

This machine was aimed at the Japanese market - see HB-10 series for the technical details. It was first shown to the public at the Japan Electronics Show '85 (Oct 17-22).

@kkarhan @nina_kali_nina Heck, even the standard 3½" diskette or the minidisc are design classics compared to what we all ended up with.
@spacehobo @[email protected] minidisc are so pretty 🥲 we still use them at home
@nina_kali_nina 💽 ← At least they have their own unicode codepoint!

@spacehobo @nina_kali_nina also #MiniDisc do take the best from 3,5" FDD, Mini-CD and MOdisc to recombime then into a really good portable media format.

  • Where #Siny not.constantly hamfisting stuff, it would be even more awesome.

Like if it used #BDXL tech and supoorted #FLAC as well as mixed mode (audio + data) use...