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To: Bernhard Michaelis who wrote (4154)	11/16/1998 11:45:00 AM
From: SouthFloridaGuy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10072

Did the CEO say what I think he did? I wouldn't be able to store my MP3's on the new 250 Zip? WHAT THE F$CK?

To: Bernhard Michaelis who wrote (4154)	11/16/1998 9:52:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

>>ever heard anything of the RIO by Diamond? you are trying to turn back the wheel of time here - zip to record music in mp3 format is too clumsy and belongs to an epoche alredy gone by!<< Bernhard - I agree with you that eventually music should be recorded and played back from solid state media (non-mechanical) only, and in that sense the Rio MP3 player by Diamond is a step forward. However, the Rio has enough internal memory (32MB) for only 60 minutes of music. You can upgrade the memory with a 16MB module for fifty dollars. Then you can have 90 minutes of music. If you get tired of that 90 minutes of music, you have to go back home and download a different set of tunes from your computer. That's ridiculous. For a portable music player to be useful to me, I need the ability to take along more than 90 minutes of music. Since the current state of technology requires that we use mechanical media, even with digital recordings, I think a Zip-based portable music player would be, in theory, a perfectly acceptable thing. - Allen