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 23:45:47 -0700
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It IS all that expensive...  :)  If you can find one that cheep, call on
me...  :)

>    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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