Subj : the machine stops
To : Tony Langdon
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Jul 10 2019 11:36 pm
Hello Tony!
** 09.07.19 - 20:29, Tony Langdon wrote to August Abolins:
TL>...In the 80s, I
TL>imagines having a portable music player with no moving parts, simply using
TL>some sort of memory chips to store the music data. And today, they're
TL>everywhere. :)
After I got my first cd player in the mid-80's, I wondered wouldn't be
better if instead of CDs (and all the crazy moving mechanics to control
the disc speed, the laser, changing a disc in a multi-player, etc..), that
the music was on little ram modules that could be inserted into the
player. The whole idea was to avoid moving parts. But I guess the cost of
memory at that time would not make such a thing doable until about 10
years later when portable mp3 players arrived instead.
../|ug
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