ROBERT SAYRE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT> That's where my thinking was going next on this.  Aren't there a
RJT> couple of consumer appliances out there that use hard drives?

RS>  Well, I have the ability to use my PC as a VCR. Does that count?
RS> :^)

RJT> What are you using to do that?  I can see where it would be a
RJT> handy thing
RJT> able to do.  And am wondering how much machine you need to do it...

RS>  I have a Matrox Wave Runner Studio. It's three cards - one PCI, 
RS> one ISA and one daughter that plugs onto the PCI card.

Hmm.  So it needs a couple of slots,  not a problem for me for the most part.

RS>  I don't recall the minimum requirements, but I bought it when I 
RS> ran an AMD K6 200.

That's what I have in the linux box here.

RS>  There are hard drive video recorders for average people, but most 
RS> require a subscription to "allow" recording (TIVO).

Screw that.  I'm not into playing those kinds of games,  not at all.  If
that were the only game in town I wouldn't play.

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