[Reposting, as it didn’t federate properly last time]

This is a parker IM I’ve had in my collection a while. I don’t usually go for Parker branded pens. I usually find them a bit boring/vanilla. But when I saw this one come up pristine on Ebay, I thought I’d give it a go.

It looks nice, but sadly it doesn’t seal well. There’s a hole under the clip that lets air in. Why? I guess I could try to cover it.

Bonus device in the background.

    • vext01@lemmy.sdf.orgOPMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Well i got into minidisc when I was a teenager. Before that I had tape Walkman and cd Walkmans. At the time MD was amazing. Re-recordable, small, sounds good.

      I never had any official releases of music on MD. It was all home recorded. I didn’t have the money for it.

      Later came NetMD which allowed you to transfer music quicker, but the software (sonic stage from memory) was garbage.

      That was near the end of MD’s life, but I still really like them today. I like to buy used discs on Ebay and see what people have recorded on them.

      There’s actually a really good community of MD collectors and restorers on discord. They wrote a chrome app for copying music over netmd and it’s loads better than sonic stage.

      Anyway…

      • copymyjalopy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Thanks for replying. I was surprised just to see someone still had a player. I also recorded all my own discs since commercial releases weren’t really available here in the USA. Sadly my player hasong since disappeared.

  • Display name@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It still doesn’t federate. Not automatically at least. I could load it to sh.itjust.works manually, although it may not federate upvotes, and comments will likely also be manual-only.

    But yeah, it’s not visible on lemmy.world.

    (Pasting post/comment URL from source instance into search can be used for manual loading.)