Re: WAV and minidisc

[Dan Dugan <>]

>The mini disk media sure is tough.  Recently my nephew
>left a disk in his trouser pocket and it went through
>the complete washing machine cycle, stills plays fine!
>Tony Baylis.

Wow, that's amazing. It is a non-contact medium, the working surface 
being written and read by a laser beam in a magnetic field. The 
magnetic head contacts the other side of the disk, but I figure 
that's a highly polished head on a highly polished plastic surface 
(no coating like magnetic disks), so it appears it's not much 
affected by a little contamination.

Any stories of what -has- killed an MD disk?

-Dan


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