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Re:MiniDisc Hacking by LeoPanthera on Monday October 09, 2023 @04:40AM (#37818326)
What! I grew up in the UK and it was everywhere. For years you couldn't get on a bus or a train without seeing someone listening to MiniDisc. The little inline remotes were very obvious.

They stuck around for a long time, only finally being killed by the iPod.

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Re:MiniDisc Hacking by idleproc on Monday October 09, 2023 @05:37AM (#37818636)
Indeed.

I even had a MiniDisc car stereo. So much better than CDs, you could just let them rattle around in the glove box and they didn't get scratched.

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Re:MiniDisc Hacking by cogman10 on Monday October 09, 2023 @07:44AM (#37819358)
And it wasn't the first iPod that ended up killing it. Circa 2004->2006 minidiscs were still super common.
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