Sounds like (for what Stuart was wanting anyway, Home Automation) it would be a lot easier to get a 100+ cd jukebox (which are rather cheap nowadays, ~$150ish) and master its IR remote pattern. Then an EEprom to store favs and you're set.. Peter L. Peres wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Stuart O'Reilly wrote: > imho, master an EIDE hard disk interface first, then try to do it with a > CDROM. > > Peter