Re: where to buy mini discs (was: mini disc erase undo?)

From: Rob Danielson (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2006 - 21:34:34 PST


http://www.tapewarehouse.com seems to have the 1GB HiMD disks for
$4.67 each, older blanks too. MD is far from dead. Sony just
introduced a new metal case HiMD recorder that is mac/pc compatible,
has manual audio gain memory and will do USB uploading of recordings
made with the _older_ MD models.
http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=14814 Rob D

At 10:03 PM -0500 3/27/06, Tony Conrad wrote:
>Is professionaltape.com the complete URL?
>
>
>Quoting Steve Polta <email suppressed>:
>
>> Thanks everyone. I was in a Best Buy in Colma
>> yesterday and could not find MDs, although I liked the
>> roof-top parking with view of the cemetaries, the
>> freeway and the JoAnn's Crafts across the street, and
>> I like going to electronics stores for the noise and
>> chaos. Of course I didn't ask anyone for help finding
>> the MDs, fearing humiliation as a defense of the
>> employees ignorance ("What's a tape recorder? Why
>> would anyone make recordings?") so they may have been
>> there. I dunno. I think MD is kind of dead. Now
>> obsolete. But I ordered some online from
>> professionaltape.com (discontinued item. 89 cents
>> each. multi-colored. "Please order in quantities of
>> five.")
>>
>> steve polta
>>
>> --- Bridget Irish <email suppressed> wrote:
>>
>> > Hey Steve,
>> >
>> > I have yet to locate minidiscs on Best Buy's on-line
>> > catalog, but I've found
>> > some - Sony and Fuji brands - in the store here -- I
>> > get the feeling
>> > whatever the store currently has in stock is it, I
>> > haven't chked what the
>> > status is on BB continuing to sell/carry them...
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Bridget Irish, artist/curator/odd jobs
>> >
>> > www.filmanddestroy.org
>> > www.bridgetirish.com
>> > p.o. box 2372
>> > olympia, wa 98507
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > >From: Steve Polta <email suppressed>
>> > >Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List
>> > <email suppressed>
>> > >To: email suppressed
>> > >Subject: Re: mini disc erase undo?
>> > >Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:25:05 -0800
>> > >
>> > >I'm pretty certain that the "erase all" (and the
>> > mere
>> > >"erase") are not at all undoable. It's very sad.
>> > Try
>> > >looking at the amazing www.minidisc.org , which is
>> > >vast and features about every piece of MD info you
>> > >could conceptualize, including downloadable manuals
>> > >and arfchived MD discussion groups. The definitive
>> > >answet to yr question is there.
>> > >
>> > >Speaking of MDs, does anyone know a physical world
>> > >retailer that sells the things (spec. the discs,
>> > not
>> > >the recorders). Radio Shack has bailed on them and
>> > >electronics shops are no good either. Best Buy?
>> > >
>> > >steve polta
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >--- julie murray <email suppressed> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Hi Frameworkers,
>> > > > I pressed "erase all" in the minidisc menu
>> > not
>> > > > intending to and lost an
>> > > > entire disc of recording. Is there any way of
>> > > > reversing this action or
>> > > > retrieving the tracks that anyone knows of? Can
>> > it
>> > > > be sent to a special
>> > > > clinic to a hard drive doctor or something? ( I
>> > saw
>> > > > once a picture of a mac
>> > > > computer that had been set on fire and still the
>> > > > file were able to be
>> > > > retrived from it)
>> > > > Thanks,
>> > > > Julie Murray
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> >
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Rob Danielson
Film Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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