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