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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (36017)	11/16/1997 11:46:00 PM
From: kjude	Respond to of 58324

rocky, according to iom "you can record music of 1-2hours on a single 100mb disc" thats around what? 25-50 minutes(excuse the math) of music on a clik for a $10 disc that can be used over again and also for photogarphs and also for well the list continues, regards

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (36017)	11/17/1997 12:54:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

>>I shudder to think of what such sound, after going through that low of bit rate, and that high data compression would sound like. A CD holds 650MB of data. It has the capablity to hold 74 minutes of stereo sound at 44.1k 16 bit. Now, Clique holds 6.15% of CD capacity, so if you recorded CD quality sound to Clique, it would hold approx. 4.5 minutes stereo, or 9 minutes of mono sound. 9 minutes of mono sound for $10? That's not a very good deal.< Silly Rocky - We're talking about recording the spoken word, for the purposes of note taking. As long as you can understand the recording, it really doesn't matter what the quality is. 16-bit recording at 44.1KHz would be overkill. You could definitely get 2 + hours of mono, 8-bit, 11KHz sampling rate recording onto a clik! disk. And the recording software doesn't need to be as complex as RecordIt. There are digital telephone answering machines today, built around chips which would work nicely for a digital note recording machine. The advantage of such a machine, which could very well make it worth a slightly higher cost for many buyers, is that you could almost instantly access any part of the recording, without having to fast-forward or rewind the tape for minutes. Sounds like a fine idea to me. - Allen