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farewell, mini-disc

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

I bought my mum a DVD player to replace her CD player, which died while I was staying with her. The new unit has an optical out, so I thought I'd go get some MD's to finally use the optical in and fiber cable that came with the MD player Charlie and Jon got me for my brithday some years ago.

No dollar stores, major retail music shops, computer stores or even Radio Shacks etc carry them anymore. I eventually found a dusty package of ten (not a box, just ten to be sold separately in some cellophane) at "Edward's Music World", where the 20ish kid behind the counter couldn't identify them among the products (he put them down on the counter with some Zip disks, and said, "are either of these mini-disks?").

I wound up paying $40 for the ten. Oh mini-disc, we hardly knew ye.