Re: (idm) here's an idea...

From laerm
Sent Fri, May 15th 1998, 02:49

On Thu, 14 May 1998, Ernesto Ikerd wrote:

> According to Steve Jobs, early 1999 will introduce a palmtop macintosh 
> (similar to a Newton Messagepad, buy WAY meaner!) that will run a 
> 'skinny' version of MacOS.  If its enough OS to run Vamp, or MacAMP, then 
> a portable palmtop mp3 player would be a lil over 6 months away!!!
> 
> Dunno if the opening price would make it practical as a pure mp3 player 
> tho.. well see I guess
i've heard that they have these: portable mp3 players, kinda like a
walkman, that you can connect to your parallel port and and dump data out
to a rewritable small HD in the unit, or to MD-data. do these things
exist, or shall i build one? :) (dunno how portable that'd be...)

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