Re: TI-H: ACPlay. NOT "mpman"

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Subject: Re: TI-H: ACPlay. NOT "mpman"
From: "Gabe" <Gabeman@Earthling.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 23:08:35 -0400
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    Not really. When you add it up, it's not that expensive using current
hardware (I'm not talking about manufacturing a brand new system like the
MPMan). A $130 CD drive, plus about $100-200 for the box (decoder, control
system) doesn't sound too unreasonable to me...

-Gabe

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: ACPlay. NOT "mpman"


>
>Any company that dares sell a portable CD mp3 player for under $499 is
>cutting corners...  :)
>
>>I think what he wants to do is use the cd-r discs, not write to them. All
>>you need to do is if the interface is IDE, just switch out the drives
>>(instead of a HD, a bootable CD). Then, he only has to switch the discs,
>>and not re-copy everything to and from the HD.
>>
>>Jeff Dezur
>>jeffd@wwnet.net
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Grant Stockly wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> CDr drives aren't in portbale design.  This mp3 player I devolped is the
>>> targeted sizer of a VHS tape.  A CDR version would be huge and slow.  It
>>> would also skip.  The hard drive version works the same, is rewritable,
>>> cheeper, and connects to your parallel port.  There are drivers being
>>> written for linux to use the mp3 player as a normal hard drive under
>>> linux...
>>>
>>> >how much will the cd-r version cost?? (I have a burner and I have
>>> >always wanted one of these :)
>>>
>>>
>
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