I really wish that Sony had built a reasonably priced IDE version of the MD recorder. Those things were tough and not too bad.
Unlike the article's love of ZIP drives. I liked ZIP drives like my first car, it got me places I couldn't go before and left me stranded there multiple times. ZIPs were not very reliable.
I suddenly remembered how much I hated seeing Sony portable MD players for sale. They were all perfectly cuboid except for an obviously battery-sized lump in the posterior. Sony being the monsters they are, their packaging was deceptively designed to show just the front face and conceal the back inside the plastic bubble, so you wouldn't find out about their terrible shape until you got home.
Unlike the article's love of ZIP drives. I liked ZIP drives like my first car, it got me places I couldn't go before and left me stranded there multiple times. ZIPs were not very reliable.