Re: Wireless In-Car MP3?

["Simon Rafferty" <simonr@xxxxxxx>]

You can check out http://www.letscommunicate.co.uk/carpc/

and http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/CarPuter

or http://www.stevieg.org/carpc/

for people who have installed carputers.

Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: UKHA
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 9:08 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Wireless In-Car MP3?


On the other side of the fence, many years ago I had a "portable"
MP3 player
(that was P133 PC built into a briefcase, powered by an inverter) with a
5GB
3.5" standard IDE harddrive, cushioned by a few rubber grommets,
strapped
into the boot of my car for many months (until the inverter packed up), the
harddrive was fine... not hiccup in the music and it scandisked fine when I
removed it...

A friend also has a newer MStation that has had the 3.5" HD mounted in
his
boot for 2-3years and he does a lot of mileage, but the HD is still OK...

Of course YMMV...  :)

Lee
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Rafferty [mailto:simonr@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 July 2004 12:11
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Wireless In-Car MP3?


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
>>
>>
>>>>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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