Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Convert Music CD Player to Computer CD Reader
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.222540.4673@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1043@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 90 22:25:40 GMT

In article <1043@digi.lonestar.org> crichmon@digi.lonestar.org (Charles Richmond) writes:
>I would like to know what it would take to add some circuitry to
>an audio CD player so that a computer could read a CD rom on it.

Probably a lot.  The two disk formats are not the same (in particular,
the CDROM needs much better error detection and correction -- minor bit
rot in music is very hard to notice) and the audio hardware will almost
certainly be a single-point design built for audio and nothing else.
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