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To: Cogito who wrote (4216)	11/17/1998 12:34:00 AM
From: Bernhard Michaelis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

>>No. You wouldn't want that no matter how cheap it was, and no matter how big the one tape was. And if it cost you 200 bucks and the tape was only one hour? No way.<< Your logic makes perfect sense..yet people pay $ 120 for a small Motorola Startac battery (cellular phone), that only lasts a little bit longer than an hour. We'll know more after Christmas. Meantime, I'm betting on both horses <g> Bernhard

To: Cogito who wrote (4216)	11/17/1998 1:13:00 PM
From: Chucky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Allen, Re:"You could set it up so that you just use the Clik! disk to download new tunes to the flash RAM. It only spins for that amount of time." The only problem I have is how much time is that? Would a player like that be able to read ahead and fill the buffer while it plays. I know I have been impatient with my portable CD player when I have to wait a few seconds for it to retrieve the number of tracks. But I can see where the entire disk buffer has its advantages. I know we had discussed the Sony MD a year or two ago, but I seem to have forgotten why they never pushed that as a data storage device. Would the drives be too expensive (like other MO drives) or was Sony possibly worried about pirating problems? Later Chucky