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

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Subject: Re: TI-H: ACPlay. NOT "mpman"
From: "Gabe" <Gabeman@Earthling.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 15:35:30 -0400
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Maybe you're not understanding me. This is gonna be a grassroots project
like David's EL's. You're not gonna be able to pick it up at Service
Merchandise or Radio Shack. You'll get em mail order from a bunch of college
kids. It won't be a fancy all-in-one-box type deal.

-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 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: ACPlay. NOT "mpman"


>
>I guess you don't know what the standard markup price for electronics is...
>:)  You'd be surprized...
>
>>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"
>>
>>
>>>
>>>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 :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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