Subject: Re: ALPS 4x4 CD changer (ATAPI)
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Jonathan R. Hinds <jon@fork.yi.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/23/2000 20:47:17
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Jukka Marin wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 12:45:07PM -0700, Miles Nordin wrote:
> > Maybe the dropping cost of hardware can be used as an excuse for giving
> > up:  single-disc CD players cost, what, $20-$40 these days, and hard disc
> > space approaching $0.01/MB means that enough space to hold an entire
> > CD-ROM will soon cost you about $6.50.
> 
> I was talking about the good old music CD's.. and I don't think it's
> cheap enough to put 100 or 200 CD's on a hard disk yet :-)
> 
>   -jm
> 

I've got 220 cd's currently occupying about 11.1 gigs. I think thats
reasonable. Plus the instant access to any of them is great, and nfs
exporting the whole thing provides the entire house with music.