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


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




    This is a college student project (not me), and from what I hear it's in
it's final stages, and even undergoing manufacturing. Joe Jezak, if you're
checking your TI-H mail, feel free to throw out the url any time now ;)

-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 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: ACPlay. NOT "mpman"


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>Just to let you know, if you plan to do something like this, you'd better
>do it quick!  I'm working with helping someone who has already done DOS FAT
>recognition and ATAPI routines on his MP3 player...  :)
>
>and if you are thinking about just making a decoder solution, there has
>been one available under the company Intermetal for a year or two.  Its
>only $5 and takes a serial data stream, and pumps out 16 or 18bit DAC
>stream.  Wire a dac to the thing and you've got it...  10 wires and thats
>it.
>
>>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"
>>
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>>>
>>>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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