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Cool! I got a sony mz-r55 since 1998, and it still works great today, this format was great engineering. Do you remember what model you had? Looks like Toshiba is an undetected brand in the current knowledge of the format https://www.minidisc.wiki/equipment/sorting/manufacturers could be useful to add that information! That’s the scope of this great wiki about MiniDisc! There’s a nice community behind that, luckily, is keeping the format more than alive with pure passion. would be nice to have them here on nostr, they are that punk that would fits well :)

Damn. I can't find it either. I must be misremembering. Mine is long gone. Maybe it was a Sony.

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No worries, time passed and MiniDisc never skyrocketed outside Japan, sadly. Also, there were “white label” devices that brands could buy readymade from some unknown companies and just print their name on and sell them. Don’t think Toshiba did that, they were toying with high density optical storage in the early 90s so probably they completely skipped MiniDisc iirc. The competition for digital in the 90s was amazing! Philips invented the dcc, a digital cassette where devices were backward compatible with the widely common analog cassettes but the information was digital. It was the Philips competitor of MiniDisc but failed badly because it was carrying the downsides of the tape while MiniDisc had the plus of the CD (ironically designed by Philips and Sony). And also the DAT was already there and with 100% lossless PCM.