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"One thing about 60s music, or any other "decade" group is they are not
making any more so MP3 is an excellent way to hear it.
The only argument anyone has made to me that makes sense is I never
hear anything new but I have my wife and a daughter scouting that out
for me."


I do have hundreds of tunes from the '50s and '60s plus favorites up till about 5 or 6 years ago loaded on my older iPod that connects through the Highlander stereo. Always use that on highway trips over an hour in duration.

On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 11:47:53 -0700 (PDT), True North
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- show quoted text -
"One thing about 60s music, or any other "decade" group is they are not
making any more so MP3 is an excellent way to hear it.
The only argument anyone has made to me that makes sense is I never
hear anything new but I have my wife and a daughter scouting that out
for me."


I do have hundreds of tunes from the '50s and '60s plus favorites up till about 5 or 6 years ago loaded on my older iPod that connects through the Highlander stereo. Always use that on highway trips over an hour in duration.

I had PCs in my cars for years but when all of my socket 7 boards
stopped working I bit the bullet and bought real MP3 players to
replace the factory radio. I still miss the PCs
Newer faster PCs don't seem to be able to tolerate the Florida heat as
well. A P4 machine gave up the ghost pretty fast. It would not start
up until the car cooled down.
I really wish I could find a player, hardware or software that works
as well as the DOS based MPXPLAY. I real;ly like the idea of using a
numeric pad to select songs, jukebox style. All of the players in the
house run MPXPLAY. Attila the Hungarian has written a version that
runs natively under XP but it is still basically a DOS program,
written in C. It is free.

On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:39:17 -0400, wrote:

Newer faster PCs don't seem to be able to tolerate the Florida heat as
well. A P4 machine gave up the ghost pretty fast. It would not start
up until the car cooled down.

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You need a Panasonic Toughbook. Huge numbers of them are riding
around in police cars in full sun. Purchased off-lease, prices are
fairly reasonable.

On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:48:22 -0400,
wrote:

On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:39:17 -0400, wrote:

Newer faster PCs don't seem to be able to tolerate the Florida heat as
well. A P4 machine gave up the ghost pretty fast. It would not start
up until the car cooled down.

===

You need a Panasonic Toughbook. Huge numbers of them are riding
around in police cars in full sun. Purchased off-lease, prices are
fairly reasonable.

That is not a horrible idea but when I have looked into laptop
solutions in the past, I have trouble finding them that support any
kind of remote power on and off.
The PCs I was using had the option to power on after a power failure
(key off)

On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:06:24 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:48:22 -0400,
wrote:

On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:39:17 -0400, wrote:

Newer faster PCs don't seem to be able to tolerate the Florida heat as
well. A P4 machine gave up the ghost pretty fast. It would not start
up until the car cooled down.

===

You need a Panasonic Toughbook. Huge numbers of them are riding
around in police cars in full sun. Purchased off-lease, prices are
fairly reasonable.

That is not a horrible idea but when I have looked into laptop
solutions in the past, I have trouble finding them that support any
kind of remote power on and off.
The PCs I was using had the option to power on after a power failure
(key off)

===

Yes, most desk top PCs can be set up do do that. It's important to
remember however that laptops have sort of a built in UPS function as
long as the battery is good. Even a marginal battery will get you
through most power blips.

On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:32:21 -0400,
wrote:

On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:06:24 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:48:22 -0400,
wrote:

On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:39:17 -0400, wrote:

Newer faster PCs don't seem to be able to tolerate the Florida heat as
well. A P4 machine gave up the ghost pretty fast. It would not start
up until the car cooled down.

===

You need a Panasonic Toughbook. Huge numbers of them are riding
around in police cars in full sun. Purchased off-lease, prices are
fairly reasonable.

That is not a horrible idea but when I have looked into laptop
solutions in the past, I have trouble finding them that support any
kind of remote power on and off.
The PCs I was using had the option to power on after a power failure
(key off)

===

Yes, most desk top PCs can be set up do do that. It's important to
remember however that laptops have sort of a built in UPS function as
long as the battery is good. Even a marginal battery will get you
through most power blips.

If it doesn't come on with the key and go off with the key, it is not
useful to me. My MP3 players all do that, PC or not.