Along these lines, I have spare old Toshiba laptop with a 100-Mhz Pentium processor and Windows 98 on it that I am considering adding either a PC Card wired or wireless connection to and a pair of amplified PC speakers to function specifically as a audio appliance in the dining room in place of our current radio. For my wife and my benefit, I could develop a local webpage for the browser just to launch links to the radio streams of interest. This will still consume more electricity than I'd care to consume (as compared to an actual radio), which might be the show stopper, but it would allow me to listen more to what I want to listen to. And with a CD player in the laptop, I would have that ability also. Currently I'd be more interested in live radio streams than podcasting per se, although this system could certainly do both. I already have both wired and wireless home networking (although not a connection specifically in the dining room yet). The only piece I'm missing actually is the PC Card for networking for this particular computer (which requires older 16-bit cards, and not the more common 32-bit cards sold today).
Kevin Anderson --- Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I joined the wifiradio group on Yahoo to learn something about > it. I > recently bought an E-1, played with it for about a week and > returned it. > The dumb little buttons surrounding the screen bother the h*ll > out of me. > The radio sounded great. The build quality left me cold. I'm > thinking more > about internet radio these days than I am about another > shortwave radio. > I've got a laptop and am thinking about a broadband connection > to see how > that works. if I like it, I'll consider a dedicated "radio". > > Mike -- ------------------------------------- Kevin Anderson, Dubuque IA USA, K9IUA k9iua (at) yahoo (dot) com http://postoilgeography.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or visit the URL shown above.
