MD cover mounted on the February 1993 issue of Q Magazine.

[Jimma]

I recently picked up this copy of Q Magazine from February 1993 on ebay for £2. It caught my eye because it still had the free MiniDisc mounted on the cover. I remember buying this issue when it first came out as I was working in the audio and tv department at Harrods in London at the time and was fascinated by these little discs that had just come onto the market but couldn't afford to buy one with the price of an MZ-1 being around £500 at the time.

I remember keenly removing the disc from the cover and finding a shiny new MD machine in the department to play it on to see if I had won. Sadly I hadn't but at least they stuck a few tunes on there so that I could listen jealously to the sound quality of these tiny new machines. At least they seemed tiny at the time.

Sadly I didn't get a MiniDisc recorder for another five years after that. If only I'd had one of the winning discs my passion would have started sooner.

Maybe I have a winning disc now, although I fear it may be slightly too late to claim my prize.

I've scanned the cover with the disc plus several MD adverts that are in the mag. The one that is in several pieces is within the front cover and folds out three times.

The magazine also contains adverts for DCC and LaserDisc.

[Azureal]

That's very cool Jimma, thanks for sharing! I remember when Rolling Stone released a similar edition with an attached MD. I don't recall that there was a contest to win a new MZ-1 but the disk was filled with music, sadly I lost it somewhere along the way ...

[Joanne_Chan]

I recall around October or Novemeber of 1994 Q had a mountain of rovelled up casette tape stuck inside the magazine as part if an advert for MD