Re: Wireless In-Car MP3?

["Simon Rafferty" <simonr@xxxxxxx>]

I have seen special shock mount cradles for HD's mounted in cars, how
resilient they are without is a good guess. To give you some idea, my
brother cycles 5 miles to work each day with a 20gig lacie firewire HD in
his backpack, in 18 months he is on his 4th HD! Go figure !

Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: Mal Lansell
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Wireless In-Car MP3?


How resiliant are hard disks to the kinds of bumping you get in a car,
though?  Is it likely to suffer, or are there special drives for this
kind of environment?

Mal

Phil Harris wrote:

>Yeah - pretty sure it was the M-Station that you're referring to ... I
think
>Maplin did them for a bit but I know CPC used to do them too and they
were
>plugging them in their special offers brochures for ages trying to get
shot
>of them.
>
>Phil
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mal Lansell [mailto:mlansell@xxxxxxx]
>>Sent: 16 July 2004 09:30
>>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Wireless In-Car MP3?
>>
>>Sounds intriguing.  Are you sure it was Maplin?  I don't
>>remember seeing anything like that in their catalogue...
>>
>>Mal
>>
>>
>>Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG) wrote:
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>>>Mal,
>>>
>>>Maplin were selling something similar. It was a SFF computer
and 3"
>>>(guessing) LCD screen & buttons. The HDD was in a caddy so
>>>
>>>
>>you'd pull
>>
>>
>>>the caddy out, put it in your desktop PC, dump your mp3s to it
then
>>>slot it back in the car. The HDD wasn't huge, maybe 40GB, but
enough
>>>for a couple of songs on the way to work ;-)
>>>
>>>I had a quick look on the Maplin site and can't see it now,
>>>
>>>
>>typical :-(
>>
>>
>>>Price wasn't too bad either, comparable to an IPOD IIRC.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Tim H.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Mal Lansell  Sent: 15 July 2004 18:01
>>>>
>>>>I'm wondering if anyone knows of such a beast...
>>>>
>>>>I was sitting here while burning a CD to listen to in the
>>>>
>>>>
>>car on the
>>
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>>>>way home from work that it might be an idea to buy a car
>>>>
>>>>
>>stereo that
>>
>>
>>>>could play MP3 disks (so I wouldn't have to burn so many
disks!).
>>>>
>>>>Then I thought why not connect a portable Mp3 player
instead
>>>>- I could download music to it and have different tunes
each day
>>>>without having to burn disks at all.
>>>>
>>>>_Then_ I thought, well wouldn't it be cool if the player
had a
>>>>wireless lan connection - I could grab music from my home
network
>>>>before setting off in the morning, and not have to keep
>>>>
>>>>
>>bringing the
>>
>>
>>>>thing indoors (the player not the car) to be plugged into
the PC.
>>>>
>>>>I know I could do this with a Wireless PDA, but is there
>>>>
>>>>
>>anything that
>>
>>
>>>>can be permanently fitted to the car that would do that
same thing?
>>>>
>>>>If not, there's a gap in the market for someone to fill!
:-)
>>>>
>>>>Mal
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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