Yeah - I had a skim (seemed relevant to my current research) and I think you're right.
If you look a bit further, where it's describing the diagrams (when there's already thousands of words, who needs to pay for the pictures?), it's all about actuators and servo arms for essentially behaving like an 80s jukebox; selecting and loading CDs into a drive and then buffering them in memory.
So yeah -- it's the wireless jukebox podcaster, formulated in the days where hard drives were expensive and we still thought our CD-Rs would last a lifetime.
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Yeah - I had a skim (seemed relevant to my current research) and I think you're right.
If you look a bit further, where it's describing the diagrams (when there's already thousands of words, who needs to pay for the pictures?), it's all about actuators and servo arms for essentially behaving like an 80s jukebox; selecting and loading CDs into a drive and then buffering them in memory.
So yeah -- it's the wireless jukebox podcaster, formulated in the days where hard drives were expensive and we still thought our CD-Rs would last a lifetime.