On Sat, 22 May 1999 07:16:53 +1000 "Paul B. Webster VK2BZC" writes: >Harold Hallikainen wrote: > >> Moving a bit off topic... I've noticed the price of CD jukeboxes >> is quite low, while the cost of CD-ROM jukeboxes is quite high. >> Anyone have any ideas about a conversion of an audio jukebox to >data? > > That made me smile. Would you *really* want a single-speed CD-ROM >drive again, even if cheap? > > Discussion I had with someone the other day who was considering a CD >jukebox. A 6 GB HDD, which is equivalent to a 10-disc 100X jukebox, >is >also quite cheap at present. Hmmm. >-- I am just kinda interested in the idea of having applications "run" from a CD ROM jukebox on the network with a local hard drive serving as a cache. When we want to run an application, the local cache is checked. If the program is there, we run it from there. If not, we go to the juke box. When it's time to do a program upgrade, we swap the CD ROM and flush the cache. Probably not very practical... but an interesting idea... and way off topic! Harold Harold Hallikainen harold@hallikainen.com Hallikainen & Friends, Inc. See the FCC Rules at http://hallikainen.com/FccRules and comments filed in LPFM proceeding at http://hallikainen.com/lpfm ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]