I still got all mine too. Have one with the manual click wheel, think it was 4GB. Was top of the line at the time.
Funny how those basically bootstrapped Apple to what it is today.
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wish I still had my original one. what a great device at a time where everything else was either plastic or overly complicated, like my beloved minidisc player. wish I could find that thing. I think I sold it on ebay.
Wild to think there were no solid state drives then and it was all spinning hard disks in those. Amazing they functioned so well.
Funny how fast the mini disks came and went once MP3 players came to market. Minidisk was top of the line for a year or so. Zune tried to make its name as well.
we carried so many of those little minidiscs around. Sony lost another format battle right there. They did get to the place where the minidiscs could hold and play mp3s, but it was too late by then. If Sony had made that transition sooner, the audiophiles may have revolted, but the mass markets would have embraced their devices.