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From: dlee@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (David Lee)
Subject: automated CD library (was: idea: floppy loading robot)
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 93 08:53:51 GMT
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In article <matth.747031260@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan) writes:
>carice@netcom.com (Chuck Rice) writes:
>
>>Add a bookshelf and some memory to the robot arm and sell it to audiophiles
>>to mount audio-CDs, displaying artist, selection, etc. on a nice LCD. They
>>would buy it. People spend lots of bucks on their hobbies. It would have to
>>look slick, but it would sell. -Chuck-
>
>Yes, it would be a nice enhancement to have be able to load cdroms, music
>cds, tapes but it would probably ending up costing too much.
>

I've given a bit of thought about this for a while and would think that 
such systems could be designed and implemented even at a high cost depending
on what market you sought to target.  With the investment that many 
technophiles make in their audio and video electronics collections, a system
running in the tens of thousands, if implemented reliably and having the
supporting interfaces and software, could become a "wanna get" for the
higher end set.  Also, with the investment that some corporations are making
in multimedia systems as well as with cable and telephone companies providing
access to data on demand, huge juke box-type systems are not unreasonable.
In this arena most of these installs would be tailored though.

I'm setting the followup for alt.toys.hi-tech.

David

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