MD: Lincoln / Ford
I am at least a week behind in reading the digests, so forgive me if this has been mentioned before - and forgive me because I know it is off-topic. In the on-going debate about is an Aiwa a Sony, and is a Ford a Lincoln, etc. Larry states that no Ford ever had back-to-back doors (i.e. the door handles are next to each other). I beg to differ. The suicide doors were featured on 4-door Thunderbirds in 1967 and 1968, and I think they were also a feature in 1969. Back then T-Birds had a major body redesign every three years. During the three years, the differences tended to be slight from one model year to another. How is this relevant? Well, my dream car is a 1966 T-Bird convertible with an in-dash MD player added (don't care what the purists say in this respect). Of course, even if I could afford the car (which I can't), I couldn't afford the gas for a 469 cubic inch engine. By the way, Larry, if you are at all interested in my background, though God knows why you would be, send me an off-line e-mail, and I'd be glad to tell you more about myself than you already know. James (who is not a dentist, but visits his regularly) __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Mironics computer interface
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Is there any command line based program in linux for playing sound files and crossfading? I know there's x-based stuff, but I use only the command line in linux. I don't quite think icecast and shoutcast will do this, not sure though. At 06:28 AM 6/20/01 -0700, you wrote: === = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === i have to admit, while it may be possible for me to help w/ windows a bit, at home i only have linux installed. lets focus on writing a library to use, and we do some porting back and forth. then the plugins should come. i may have some sort of windows license i can dig up and use to install a copy for some coding i guess. marc On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:31:18PM +1000, Tim Pitman wrote: The differences between the commercial version and the DIY version of the interface only affect the volume buttons (the DIY one uses and 8 way analogue multiplexer, allowing only 8 possible functions) I've had a fair bit of programming experience, including directly programming the paralell port under DOS, and serial port under Windows, so I might have a go at writing my own titling program. It would really be helpful if Mironics did offer an ActiveX interface though. Is there someone on this list who could help with a Winamp plugin, or any others who would like to help? Tim Pitman - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Lincoln / Ford
James Jarvie wrote: In the on-going debate about is an Aiwa a Sony, and is a Ford a Lincoln, etc. Larry states that no Ford ever had back-to-back doors (i.e. the door handles are next to each other). I beg to differ. The suicide doors were featured on 4-door Thunderbirds in 1967 and 1968, and I think they were also a feature in 1969. Back then T-Birds had a major body redesign every three years. During the three years, the differences tended to be slight from one model year to another. Well then I stand corrected. Not only that, I happen to actually own a T Bird myself. It's an 89, with a rather unremakable styling. I bought it quite a few years ago from a former neighbor because I needed another car and he offered it at a very good price. The biggest problem for me is the design itself. I live in an area where there is a lot of ice and snow all winter. The T bird is rear wheel drive. Terrible in the snow. For a while I gave it to my daughter to use, but was afraid of her driving it in the winter, so I got her a front wheel drive and put the T bird in moth balls. While she had it, she was side swiped by a hit and run driver so the driver's side is pretty messed up. When I blew the engine on my 90' Quad Four Pontiac Grand Am (that had 163,000 miles on it) driving it 115 miles an hour (what can I say, it felt so good-passing all of those brand new BMWs-and I didn't even have the pedal to the floor-amazing for a 4 cylinder-and yes only a stupid schmuck would do that to car, so you know something else about me, I can be a stupid schmuck) I took the T Bird out of moth balls. There is one other problem with the T bird, it's color is diarrhea, shit brown! I saw a movie where they locked these mobsters in their Lincoln while they were going through a car wash by hand cuffing the door handles together (they were those suicide doors) By the way, Larry, if you are at all interested in my background, though God knows why you would be, send me an off-line e-mail, and I'd be glad to tell you more about myself than you already know. I'm interested, but I wouldn't want to pry. James (who is not a dentist, but visits his regularly) That's important!! OK to keep this related to MD, I used to use one of my portable MD recorders in my office and let the patients listen to headphones if they wanted, while they were in the chair. It never caught on too big. I now have a pair of those Sony Glasstrons, but I can't figure out what to show using them. If I play prerecorded movies or DVDs, they'll be into the first half hour of the movie, then what? I've thought about making copies of the best scenes from different movies and putting them on the same tape. You know perhaps a comedy tape, action adventure, Si Fi. But that seems like a lot of work and I' way too lazy to do that. Larry - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Sony's quick sale off the hook packaging
I saw a picture of the Sony R700DPC. It is packaged like one of their portable CD players that they'd expect to have quick sales on. For me that's a good sign that Sony hasn't discontinued the idea of selling MD in the US yet. I still think that the price is too high for the masses to consider. For $250 they can buy one of those mini systems with CD changer, tuner, 60 watt per channel amp, dual cassette (yep I'm still seeing most of them that way) and video inputs, etc. The 60 watts are often rated at 10% THD! Even at $199 they seem a little high for the masses (although I think that for an MDLP recorder, most of us on the list would think that's not a bad price-especially when you consider that the USB transfer device sells for about $99 by itself). Also, a 64MB Diamond Rio player would cost at least $199. It seems like there are opposing forces at work at Sony. There are those that feel that the MD is still one of the greatest things they invented in the 20th Century and those who think it sucks. The people who like MDs, design still cameras, digital video cameras, and even improve the music MD with MDLP, while they get no support from the rest of Sony. That 30 million dollar ad campaign Sony ran in the US a few years ago was a joke. Those were some of the least inspired, least interesting, least informative, least motivating commercials I have ever seen! They wasted their money on B grade actors and models. I'd still like to know why Sony hasn't been able to get their stuff into Wal Mart? Although I suspect that Wal Mart drives a hard bargain and would want them at very low cost. My local Sam's Club once carried one of the early portable players at a ridiculously high price and never offered blanks (what's the difference, what are you going to do with a player and blanks anyway? They didn't offer a recorder). Larry - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
