was: Re: VHS Tapes as storage.

Sony sold "MD-Data" drives. Sony claimed that it would replace floppy discs. (Amazing how many things were predicted to do that yet didn't.) The drives were very pricey, which of course prevented widespread adoption. I can only imagine that some brilliant person in Sony's marketing department must have been thinking "we can push these as a floppy drive replacement, sell them to OEMs to be put in every PC, and make $150 on each unit". Anyhow, you were probably asking about trying to record data on an audio MD recorder, perhaps by using the optical digital input. Although it's sort of possible, the problem is the lossy audio compression. You'd have to come up with a way to encode the data such that it has audio characteristics that will pass through the encoder. Of course, the exact operation of the coder (ATRAC?) is a trade secret of Sony, so this will be difficult. By the time all's said and done, I doubt that you could get more than about 20 MB on the disc in this manner, and it would take over an hour to record that.