@Cloudscout Your post about minidiscs inspired me to make a blog post: https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-03-27-134200.html
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I'm in Edinburgh. I like designing simple technology and riding my solar e-bike - which even works in Scotland!
@Cloudscout at which point I get you to get *two* netMD machines...
@Cloudscout it might be too late given you got one...but the MZ-N505 I got is quite slow to read. It is a "Type-R" device. If I understand correctly the newer Type-S machines have more RAM which allows faster transfer code to be loaded, or similar. But maybe you already got a fast one.
@Cloudscout I am curious about DAT as that is another thing that passed me by. I have a DAT tape but the players are expensive now.
I don't know why but I like the optical 3.5mm connection to record from CD. "The music is turned into light?!" Is one of those statements that I simultaneously understand and yet am mind blown by...
Instead of the choose your own adventure books I feel the best response is to offer a "Choose your own reply"....
A) I'm glad my blog post introduced you to an exciting new device, and enriched your life.
B) I am terribly terribly sorry and feel guilty for making you spend money on another thing you do not need. I will not write any more such blog posts.
@drbunhead I like it when people write blog posts about strange things like this - always nice to discover them!
The Omni Centre in Edinburgh had slight cyberpunk vibes today. Such a terrible shame I couldn't be advertised to.....
@amcewen Nice to hear from you - I have been enjoying your web browser contributions! I'm rather enjoying that it doesn't work on modern sites - I wonder how long a typical react website would take to load (Assuming a hypothetical Psion 5zz with 16Gb of RAM that could handle it.)
@tasket It's funny to read your comment - I was quite fancying the idea of this being my only computer. I wonder how things would have changed if this was the computer most people had.