Re: where to buy mini discs (was: mini disc erase undo?)

From: Tony Conrad (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2006 - 19:03:59 PST


Is professionaltape.com the complete URL?

Quoting Steve Polta <email suppressed>:

> Thanks everyone. I was in a Best Buy in Colma
> yesterday and could not find MDs, although I liked the
> roof-top parking with view of the cemetaries, the
> freeway and the JoAnn's Crafts across the street, and
> I like going to electronics stores for the noise and
> chaos. Of course I didn't ask anyone for help finding
> the MDs, fearing humiliation as a defense of the
> employees ignorance ("What's a tape recorder? Why
> would anyone make recordings?") so they may have been
> there. I dunno. I think MD is kind of dead. Now
> obsolete. But I ordered some online from
> professionaltape.com (discontinued item. 89 cents
> each. multi-colored. "Please order in quantities of
> five.")
>
> steve polta
>
> --- Bridget Irish <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> > Hey Steve,
> >
> > I have yet to locate minidiscs on Best Buy's on-line
> > catalog, but I've found
> > some - Sony and Fuji brands - in the store here -- I
> > get the feeling
> > whatever the store currently has in stock is it, I
> > haven't chked what the
> > status is on BB continuing to sell/carry them...
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bridget Irish, artist/curator/odd jobs
> >
> > www.filmanddestroy.org
> > www.bridgetirish.com
> > p.o. box 2372
> > olympia, wa 98507
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: Steve Polta <email suppressed>
> > >Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List
> > <email suppressed>
> > >To: email suppressed
> > >Subject: Re: mini disc erase undo?
> > >Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:25:05 -0800
> > >
> > >I'm pretty certain that the "erase all" (and the
> > mere
> > >"erase") are not at all undoable. It's very sad.
> > Try
> > >looking at the amazing www.minidisc.org , which is
> > >vast and features about every piece of MD info you
> > >could conceptualize, including downloadable manuals
> > >and arfchived MD discussion groups. The definitive
> > >answet to yr question is there.
> > >
> > >Speaking of MDs, does anyone know a physical world
> > >retailer that sells the things (spec. the discs,
> > not
> > >the recorders). Radio Shack has bailed on them and
> > >electronics shops are no good either. Best Buy?
> > >
> > >steve polta
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >--- julie murray <email suppressed> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Frameworkers,
> > > > I pressed "erase all" in the minidisc menu
> > not
> > > > intending to and lost an
> > > > entire disc of recording. Is there any way of
> > > > reversing this action or
> > > > retrieving the tracks that anyone knows of? Can
> > it
> > > > be sent to a special
> > > > clinic to a hard drive doctor or something? ( I
> > saw
> > > > once a picture of a mac
> > > > computer that had been set on fire and still the
> > > > file were able to be
> > > > retrived from it)
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Julie Murray
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
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