Re: TI-H: IDE CD-ROM to play music
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Re: TI-H: IDE CD-ROM to play music
There was this one PCMCIA CD-ROM that I saw once. You disconnected it and
it functioned like a regular CD Player (wouldn't play cd's with data on
track 1 unless you connected it to windows and told it to do so.)
Obviously, it was built for a laptop.
>Do any of you actually have one? I've used mine with NT--I was happy it
>even recognized it. Tho, it is EXTREMELY slow. I've seen faster 1x IDE
>scsi/ide drives. Admittingly, it was made for DOS/Win3.1x machines.
>Also, as a portable CD player--it has to actually "think" between
>switching tracks. It was a promising idea, but...
>Any other opinions?
>
> -Bart
> Pola@cns.uni.edu
> Windows NT System Administrator
>
>
>On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Larry G Currie wrote:
>
>>
>> Have you seen the closeout Reno's in Nuts & Volts? They're only $59 for
>> the SCSI(2?) model, double speed (180ms). Not terribly fast, compared to
>> a 20X CAV drive "BWAHAHAHAHAA!!! " -Murray, the tormented skull in Curse
>> of Monkey Island
>> ~Larry C
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>> On Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:16:18 -0400 Richard Johnson <rickvj@iglou.com>
>> writes:
>> >Grant Stockly wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've been working on an ide interface for 5 months... You have 33
>> >wires to
>> >> interface with, and it has to be perfect... :(
>> >>
>> >> >Ok I know this would be hard but is it possible to use a Ti calc to
>> >> >controll a IDE CD-ROM to play music CD's, I have a SB16 and 4x
>> >cd-rom to
>> >> >play with and I have the cdrom hooked into the soundcard, and
>> >speakers
>> >> >hooked into the soundcard, now I just need to figure out a way to
>> >send
>> >> >the comand to make the cd-rom play the cd. ???
>> >> >
>> >> >Is this harder than its worth? any ideas?
>> >> >
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>> > Think about the Reno CD player. I think it might be a propritary
>> ><sp?>
>> >interface, but you should be able to get these Media Vision drives
>> >cheap. (I
>> >think...)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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