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 handy thing
RJT> able to do.  And am wondering how much machine you need to do it...

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

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

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

 TTYL.

 Robert

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