Re: TI-H: IDE CD-ROM to play music
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Re: TI-H: IDE CD-ROM to play music
I own one like this. Panasonic 2x External SCSI PCMCIA CD-ROM. Nice drive,
little slow though...
-- Jon Olson
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, SMC12 wrote:
>
> 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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> >> Larry1492@juno.com
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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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