Just a year after the DVD Walkman was released, Sony debuted the VAIO PCG-NV200, an unusual laptop with a modular bay that can fit a MiniDisc drive (PCGA-MDN1). If you’re unfamiliar with the storage format, it’s basically erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, or 80 minutes of digitized audio.
There isn’t too much information on what kind of hardware the base model came with, other than an Intel Pentium 4 processor – M, user replaceable RAM sticks, a trackpad with scroll wheel, and a removable floppy disc drive. Aside from the MiniDisc (MD) drive, users could also swap in a numeric keypad as well as a subwoofer module.
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Prior to the advent of low cost GB+ SD cards and ssd’s, Mini Disc was the top random read write removable storage tech out there. As a big MD fan since the early 90s with a Sharp portable player in 93, stereo component md recorders 94+, and an mzr30 recorder since 98, was always amazed and frustrated that the MD wasn’t used far more commonly for data storage, as a floppy and cdrw replacement, post 2000, especially with the higher capacity HiMD. Sony kept it back for themselves way too long,” said one commenter.
