Marty,
Thanks, I will bear this in mind, though as you will have gathered, I
probably won't be going down that route.
Cheers,
Graham
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marty Michener
> Sent: 29 March 2004 19:18
> To:
> Subject: RE: [Nature Recordists] Re: Alternatives to Minidiscs - or bats
> again
>
>
> At 07:00 PM 3/29/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> >Mymika,
> >
> > > I would still recommend old 200 MHz said laptops upgraded
> with giant hard
> > > drives, you could record double the time because of mono although
> > > you may be in
> > > stereo. If you get one that runs on the 12 volt battery they
> > > would run a long
> > > time. Have you considered using solar powered recharges, I think
> > > most sunny
> > > days with recharges the nomad battery quite well with a modest panel.
> >
> >I can certainly see where this might be an option, but there are
> practical
> >reason such as physically carrying the PCs and external batteries into
> >place, which generally involves considerable walking, the costs of
> >installing large Hard drives, possible issues with the Bios of
> old PCs not
> >supporting large Hard drives.
> >
> >I hadn't thought of a solar panel to recharge the JB3 batteries
> - certainly
> >worth considering, thanks.
> >
> >Graham
>
> I have had experience with old laptops not having the throughput in their
> BIOS to sustain 180k per second of audio stream for very long, so
> thorough
> testing is in order!
>
> I send my best regards,
>
> Marty Michener, MIST Software Assoc. Inc., P. O. Box 269,
> Hollis, NH 03049
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