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To: Gottfried who wrote (4210)11/16/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: Cogito  Respond to of 10072
 
Gottfried -

OK. I'm convinced. The world needs a Zip-based portable music player. MP3 decoding could be done on an inexpensive chip. The device wouldn't have to be much larger than the smallest external laptop Zip. (I'm blanking on the company that makes it.) Maybe even smaller, since it wouldn't need a data interface at all. It would be a playback-only machine. You'd record the discs on your computer, or copy them from same.

Then again, a home recording deck using Zip for media and having MP3 encoding in hardware wouldn't cost a fortune to produce either.

Now we need to think of a name for the portable. I submit Zipwalker. I thought of Zipman, but that would be just too cruel. We have to leave Sony with at least a shred of dignity. ;-)

- Allen