ELECTRONICS Stop Us Before We Buy Again!

ELECTRONICS Stop Us Before We Buy Again!

Oh no -- not another piece of stereo equipment. We've been LPed, 8-tracked, cassetted, CDed, and DATed, and now comes the Mini Disc, or MD, unveiled last week by Sony, which expects it to surface in stores by late 1992.

Looking like a compact disc after a month on Slim-fast, the 2 1/2-in. MD is small enough to be played on a machine the size of a cigarette pack. But it holds as much music as its full-size cousin, and unlike the traditional CD (if something a decade old can be called traditional), the MD records as well as plays back....

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