My mother, bless her heart, had been dating for a month or so after we resolved everything with my father's passing. Last night, her steady boyfriend dropped that he had found an old Sony Walkman in the barn on his land that he's been working on renovating for himself.
Drops it in my lap, basically, and it's a Sony MiniDisc Walkman, model MZ-E40, in pretty damn good condition. Motherboard's fine, no fried circuits, just a bit of corrosion on the bottom battery terminals bridging the batteries; I had to cannibalize my emergency AA phone charger for the terminal, but it was a sacrifice I was fine to make ('cause those things are like five fucking bucks on AliExpress, no big deal).
Works perfectly, though the audio *on* the MiniDisc leaves me questioning the previous owner's tastes. Who mixes Christian contemporary with Collective Soul or Roxette? I think I need to find a MiniDisc recorder on the cheap if I can, this shit's getting replaced with some Eurobeat, it's so 90s to use.
Have some photos: DENSETSU NO YAMADA TAE for scale.
He has alot of interest videos and when you mentioned the MiniDisc, he was the one I automatically thought of.
Kind of wanted one but at the time you could t hack it. Now I'm really thinking about getting another Wii because mine has crapped out on me.
Finally picked this up today, turns out it had 32MB of RAM in it so that's nice. Soundcard is garbage though, just a potato Trident 2D accelerator so no fancy Voodoo or anything lol, and a modem, most of which I won't use.
Still need to test the floppy drive and HDD (although the HDD was detected, surprisingly), but that will have to wait for now.
That is so nice! Has the motherboard an AGP connector? You might be able to add USB 2.0 with some cheap PCI card... but USB support in Win95 is buggy (works better with Win98SE + some universal mass storage driver for easy data exchange via flash drives).Finally picked this up today, turns out it had 32MB of RAM in it so that's nice. Soundcard is garbage though, just a potato Trident 2D accelerator so no fancy Voodoo or anything lol, and a modem, most of which I won't use.
So, gonna shove 256MB of RAM in there, ordered an ATI Radeon 7500 for $25 (cuz fuck Voodoo2's are expensive), and a USB card cuz this thing has no PS/2 ports, uses a DIN connector for keyboard input...but manages to have 2 USB 1.1 headers on the motherboard
I want one of these so badly, but they stupid-asses didn't include motion controls, and that just kills me as a Splatoon and Zelda player. It's literally the only reason I haven't invested in one. Hopefully Hori gets their shit together someday.[emoji14]
It actually has 2 USB 1.1 headers on it (wow so futuristic!!), so don't even need to waste a PCI slot for USB expansion
But I just want USB for keyboard/mouse and nothing else, so I'm not too bothered about going 98 or anything. That and I already have a 98 rig anyways, with a K6-2 coincidentally enough I plan on using just FTP to transfer stuff to and from it, so no need for mass storage or anything like that anyways. 
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