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

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


What the hell is this markup business? people like David Knaack charge very
little to build their things....I wouldn't expect a profit of more than
$60-70 per item, which makes your calculations come out to...let's
see...$290....which is only 20 bucks more than what I had previously
estimated.

-Gabe
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Saturday, June 06, 1998 3:49 AM
Subject: Re: TI-H: ACPlay. NOT "mpman"


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