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

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Subject: Re: TI-H: ACPlay. NOT "mpman"
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 23:44:54 -0700
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Fine...  Be that way...  :)

CD player       $130
AISC            $50
Misc Chips      $30
Plastics        $10
PCB and ass.    $10
$172.5 mark up  $172.5

There you get it...  an MP3 player for $402.5

>    On the contrary. I'm not sure of the details, but this type of machine
>would probably use a laptop cd-rom type drive (basically a discman with an
>extra data output to interface with a PCMCIA). A decoder box and controller
>system would plug into this. This is also quite cool because you can play
>both audio and mp3 cds. This is cheaper than HD drives (most PCMCIA drives
>run at least $150/$200, right?) whereas the cdrom would run at about $130).
>This would also allow unlimited storage capacity (just keep burning cds),
>and cds are cheap as hell (you can even get them free). It is a MUCH more
>viable option, and has a drastically lower price per megabyte.
>
>-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 2:19 PM
>Subject: Re: TI-H: ACPlay. NOT "mpman"
>
>
>>
>>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 :)
>>
>>
>>