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 @JennyFluff @NanoRaptor A very popular device, despite the eject button being on the underside of the machine.  @chrisvest @NanoRaptor software eject & the emergency eject hole on the bottom can only be used with a proprietary iPaperclip    @chrisvest yes yes but why on earth would you want to eject one of our beautiful discs in the first place? @metaphil @chrisvest @NanoRaptor at some point you just want to hold them and admire their pretty translucent cases and cool engineering @metaphil @JennyFluff @NanoRaptor the System 7.5 install MiniDisc could be flipped and had music on the b-side that you could play with QuickTime  @JennyFluff @NanoRaptor and would that be a MacMini that can read (min)disks, or an Mac branded minidisc?      @NanoRaptor "Dana no... It's super cute I want one" "I'm surprised it wasn't a super drive based pun".        @NanoRaptor I would love to gut a “wide” Mac mini or AirPort Extreme/Time Capsule and put in a half height floppy drive and #ApplesauceFDC guts for the ultimate 5¼" imaging unit!     @NanoRaptor the 5.25" one in particular looks juuuuust a little like something out of a Cronenberg film   @NanoRaptor If memory serves me right, 5¼" drives had a gate that needed to be manually closed, while 3½" drives had a physical eject button. @jackerhack@mastodon.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social you ejected discs by dragging them to the paper bin. Very intuitive.    @bitnacht @iotar @NanoRaptor that would be 1.99 fee pur ejection and of course each cassette has DRM and so that it can only be played back on that device ;) @iotar As a C64 kid, these are giving me feels. Stuck with the crap tape deck by default, the floppy drive was a prohibitively expensive but much desired peripheral. (Finally got a 1541 mk2, well after I should have just ponied up for an Amiga.)   @iotar @NanoRaptor I believe they got as far as pre-production to ship these with the Apple ][ when they realized they'd put the wrong color logo on the player and had to abandon it.  @NanoRaptor Ooh this reminds me of An Observation that I accidentally made — the Mac Mini is suspiciously close in its footprint to the (newer, USB-C) iPad Mini:  You are from a nearby parallel reality aren't you? 😯 Please keep posting images of what there, it's fascinating 🙂👍   |
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