From: "Jim Morgan" <>
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> I wonder how long before this type of drive will be available in a digital
> recorder? Anyone know how much memory it actually has?
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> The price is amazingly low especially for an initial offering.
>
> Jim Morgan
> Prescott, AZ
Physically this drive is only slightly smaller than the IBM micro drives
that have been available for some time. I use the PCMCIA Type III hard
drives in my digital camera, and those are not much larger (1.125"
drive). They cannot price it all that high, they have competition.
I don't know as I'd take a lot of stock in their 60 hours of music
rating without knowing what compression that was.
I'd expect these are already turning up in Japan in digital recorders.
Cell Phones appear to be the digital recorder of the future.
Durability and other such things are far more important than size. We
are in great danger of having our media and recorders get so small we
can't see them anymore and some puff of wind blows them out of our hand
into the swamp ;-) I love the larger size of the Portadisc over the
mini sized MD recorders. Buttons I can mash with my fingers without
having to use the vulcan death grip on the recorder, a display I can
read without a magnifier, etc. It saves a lot of time and aggravation.
Walt
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