Preservation of correspondence

On 2/6/07, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote: I have one of those (Apex AD-600A). It's awesome. It's still my primary player, 6-7 years later, and has made two round-trips with me to the Pole. One reason I keep it going is that when the transport (DVD-ROM mechanism) dies, I have a chance of replacing it - it's an ordinary IDE drive inside, just with a tray extension instead of a standard PC faceplate. It does play MP3s, but I don't think it knows about variable bit-rate files, and it's pretty stupid when interpreting the ISO-9660 filesystem - I am pretty sure that everything has to be in the root dir, and it only displays filenames as 8.3, _and_ it does char substitution on the menu so that spaces become "X"s, etc. Kinda hard to navigate, but you can just drop a CD-R (not DVD-R) full of MP3 files into it and press 'play'. Later Apex players have better filesystem navigators and can even play "naked" video files (just a plain MPG file in a plain filesystem, not run through an authoring tool). But this is drifting off-topic... -ethan