Video: connecting a magneto optical disk to an iPhone, but will it work?
If you’ve likedNiles Mitchell’s “Will It Work” video seriesin which he attempts to make his iOS devices work with all sorts of retro computer equipment, like an Iomega Zip drive, you’re going to love this one showing connecting a magneto optical disk to his iPhone. “I love the history here, because Steve Jobs used magneto optical disk on the early NeXT computers,” Niles tells me via email. For our younger audience, a magneto optical disk, or MiniDisc as it was known under Sony’s brand name, takes advantage of a combination of magnetism and laser optics to read the data, similar to your regular CD (remember those, kids?...