Re: Minidisk to Mac
With regard to a cheap pc for misc. non-mac stuff... What would be the minimum system requirements and software to look for, so one wouldn't be buying something too outdated to be useful? What would be the decent inexpensive used pc laptops to watch for? Or desktops for that matter? I have a good monitor and keyboard collecting dust in the spare room that might as well have some meaning in their lives. My humble $0.02 on the matter: I've been given a PC by the company I do consulting work with and its just a P2 533 Mhz machine with Winderz 2000 on it. I had an old 40G HD which I added to the machine qintupling its storage ;) Slow but usable. That'll be the biggest problem if you get an older machine. It'll come with a tiny by today's standards HD. You'd want a bit more muscle to run Windows XP (home edition is good enough for what you'd want, no need for the corporate/business version) and stay away from ME, stick with 98 service pack 2 if you want an older 'stable' version of Windows (you can think of Windows 2000 as an updated version of NT, the 'corporate' version of Windows). It'd be a lot easier to add a HD to a desktop machine versus a laptop. On the other hand, if you really aren't going to be adding very much software, you could easily make due with a factory 10G HD. As far as brand goes, well, you're getting a used PC so it doesn't matter too much. I wouldn't buy a corner shop down the street built type, I'd buy a 'name' brand. Just wipe the disc and reinstall whatever version of windows comes with the machine then spend the time to go to the windows update website and just keep applying patches til it says you're up to date. Starting with a fresh slate is very important when you're dealing with a used PC. Remember, you aren't trying to buy a gaming machine, so you'll get a bare bones machine without a fancy 3d video card and fancy sound. But those aren't important for just running things like the Sony MD software and the like. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Minidisk to Mac
Why can't you use the headphone jack on the Minidisk and run the sound into your Mac through a program like Coaster, which will convert it back to digital, which can then be saved to CD? Tom on 6/1/04 0:40, Kristin Dewey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With regard to a cheap pc for misc. non-mac stuff... What would be the minimum system requirements and software to look for, so one wouldn't be buying something too outdated to be useful? What would be the decent inexpensive used pc laptops to watch for? Or desktops for that matter? I have a good monitor and keyboard collecting dust in the spare room that might as well have some meaning in their lives. Kristin -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Minidisk to Mac
I do that with SoundStudio, which seems to be working fine with X, by the way. I run my MiniDisc into the PB, record and convert with Soundstudio, and burn onto CD. I'm just thinking there might be a faster (Digital) way to transfer the analog minidisc onto my Mac, without having to record it in real-time, which takes forever... My PC question was more about having a backup computer that could do things the Mac can't - like GoDaddy's online webpage builder, AOL radio, etc. Kristin Why can't you use the headphone jack on the Minidisk and run the sound into your Mac through a program like Coaster, which will convert it back to digital, which can then be saved to CD? Tom With regard to a cheap pc for misc. non-mac stuff... What would be the minimum system requirements and software to look for, so one wouldn't be buying something too outdated to be useful? What would be the decent inexpensive used pc laptops to watch for? Or desktops for that matter? I have a good monitor and keyboard collecting dust in the spare room that might as well have some meaning in their lives. Kristin -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Minidisk to Mac
Yes, if someone figures this out, either with some USB or Firewire option or using Optical cable, I'd love to know. I have a pre-USB Sony Minidisk unit that has an interface and also an Optical cable input but so far as I know I've never found a way to directly interface it with the Mac. That's a double shame too because for the magazine I write for I use this unit as a recoreder during interviews. Victor In a message dated 5/31/04 3:38:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Book, Minidisk, SoundStudio In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Analog. If you figure out how to input digitally, let me know! I've got an Aiwa Am-F80. Kristin In a message dated 5/30/04 1:29:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you loaded minidisk archives via Soundstudio, did you input analogue or digital? To anyone: I am looking for a way to input minidisk files into a mac digitally. Anybody know software or hardware to do the trick? Out of the boxes, sony's coding is incompatible with Apple's. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Minidisk to Mac
I have the newer USB NetMD recorder, and that too will not work with a Mac. I've even tried hooking it up using VPC 6.1 and Windows 2000 without any luck. My solution to get a $100 latop PC on eBay (Toshiba 266MHz Tecra 550) and use that for loading music onto my minidiscs. The icing here is that I also now have a real hardware PC for those rare instances when I need to use one. -- China, which we call Red China, just exploded a nuclear bomb, which we called a device. © 1965, Tom Lehrer On May 31, 2004, at 2:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, if someone figures this out, either with some USB or Firewire option or using Optical cable, I'd love to know. I have a pre-USB Sony Minidisk unit that has an interface and also an Optical cable input but so far as I know I've never found a way to directly interface it with the Mac. That's a double shame too because for the magazine I write for I use this unit as a recoreder during interviews. Victor In a message dated 5/31/04 3:38:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Book, Minidisk, SoundStudio In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Analog. If you figure out how to input digitally, let me know! I've got an Aiwa Am-F80. Kristin In a message dated 5/30/04 1:29:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you loaded minidisk archives via Soundstudio, did you input analogue or digital? To anyone: I am looking for a way to input minidisk files into a mac digitally. Anybody know software or hardware to do the trick? Out of the boxes, sony's coding is incompatible with Apple's. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Minidisk to Mac
I have the newer USB NetMD recorder, and that too will not work with a Mac. I've even tried hooking it up using VPC 6.1 and Windows 2000 without any luck. My solution to get a $100 latop PC on eBay (Toshiba 266MHz Tecra 550) and use that for loading music onto my minidiscs. The icing here is that I also now have a real hardware PC for those rare instances when I need to use one. Definitely the way to go. I have managed to get VPC 5.x with OS 9 to see and talk to a MD, but never the OS X version. For those with newer Mac's which won't even boot 9 that isn't an option. A cheap used PC is definitely the solution. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Minidisk to Mac
With regard to a cheap pc for misc. non-mac stuff... What would be the minimum system requirements and software to look for, so one wouldn't be buying something too outdated to be useful? What would be the decent inexpensive used pc laptops to watch for? Or desktops for that matter? I have a good monitor and keyboard collecting dust in the spare room that might as well have some meaning in their lives. Kristin Brian Scott Oplinger wrote on 5/31/04, 8:52 PM: I have the newer USB NetMD recorder, and that too will not work with a Mac. I've even tried hooking it up using VPC 6.1 and Windows 2000 without any luck. My solution to get a $100 latop PC on eBay (Toshiba 266MHz Tecra 550) and use that for loading music onto my minidiscs. The icing here is that I also now have a real hardware PC for those rare instances when I need to use one. Definitely the way to go. I have managed to get VPC 5.x with OS 9 to see and talk to a MD, but never the OS X version. For those with newer Mac's which won't even boot 9 that isn't an option. A cheap used PC is definitely the solution. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
