18 May
2010
18 May
'10
10:24 a.m.
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 5/18/10 7:35 AM, Christian Liendo wrote:
A 21st century replacement for a Walkman.
Apparently they've thrown away all of their laptops, which would
have made more sense to use. But, you couldn't get a story in Wired
doing that, now could you?
Well, arguably true, but I think the main novelty angle of the story
here is using the very latest bit of Apple kit to load software into
one of the earliest bits. And quite a fun angle it is, too, albeit of
no real technical value or insight.
Also, FWIW, I'm slightly surprised they'd use an MP3. I would have
thought the compression would do no good at all to the digital signal
encoded on the original tape. I'd have gone for something lossless,
myself. Although come to that, I wouldn't be surprised if the iPad was
so closed-off to the outside world that it couldn't play FLAC.
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