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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