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Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder

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115 points naves | 2 comments | 30 Jun 25 18:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | source
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PaulHoule ◴[30 Jun 25 18:35 UTC] No.44426434[source]▶
Personally I'm more of a fan of minidisc. You can get minidisc players for $100 or so on Ebay and they occasionally show up at the local reuse center for less than that and my experience is that 100% of the minidisc players I've picked up worked (had one fail in six months though...), in contrast to about a 40% success rate with cassette decks. You can buy minidiscs in bulk from Japan for about $1.50 each, which is cheaper than Type 2 tapes. Portable minidisc players are available and can be plugged into your computer via USB to record music with names for the tracks.

My reuse center got two DAT decks, one of which looked terribly trashed, for $200 a piece. Nein Danke!

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1. timeonecom ◴[30 Jun 25 21:43 UTC] No.44428222[source]▶
Minidisc was where the fun was, it sounded good and the Walkmen were small. I loved that you could edit the md. Which meant if you recorded off the radio, you could instantly have your favorite song on repeat (with DJs talking over the song of course, but it beat waiting weeks before something would be available) - never got a DAT deck because MD was so much more convenient. And then MP3 players came - those with Rockbox were peak fun.
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2. zahirbmirza ◴[01 Jul 25 21:03 UTC] No.44437983[source]▶
If Sony mastered interface, a GUI for music rearrangement, they could have stopped the iPod and iTunes in its tracks. Apple took away some of the freedom that managing discs and tapes gave, with the upshot of a proper visual interface.