It seemed like it was the future at the time..

It was the future, or so I thought at the time. and I bought my Minidisc player when I a university student. I don't exactly remember how I first heard of Minidiscs, but it remembering perusing the website minidisc.org which I see is still active, that's actually pretty amazing nearly thirty years later. That really is a blast from the past and I do wonder who is still maintaining that site. But anyway, I was so over shitty cassette tapes with their low sound quality and their ability to tangle and mangle. And regular CDs were too big and they got scratched and the portable players skipped. The Minidiscs did not skip.

Anyway, I remember buying a postal money order for maybe 30,000 yen or something and sending it to Osaka, Japan to an gadget shop that shipped internationally. It certainly wasn't cheap at the time. But a couple of weeks later I received my new Sharp Minidisc player and I was so excited. I went out and bought a bunch of blank minidiscs, or maybe I ordered those too? I can't remember. The discs were small and had their own little case that protected the small disc. It was pretty cool Sony technology. And I was the only one in my college scene that had one.

I copied my favorite CDs to the little discs and traveled around Asia with it. The minidisc player did have great sound and the rechargeable battery was decent. But some of my friends were skeptical, as they could see the future of flash memory. Yeah, too many moving parts, I suppose. And they never really caught on in the West, but in Japan they were pretty popular.

After a few years I finally sold it later to an Australian buddy of mine and I'm not sure why I did. I guess I had enough of Minidisc. I wonder if he still has it. I should ask him.