They're shared as a small thank you to the Rio community for your loyalty and support to the first commercial DigitalAudio Player that fought to set the legal precedents and laid the groundwork for a new market and everything that has followed.
The Peerless drive, for instance, which uses big cartridges that hold up to 20 gigabytes of data, might be useful for in-car digitalaudio players or as a removable drive for storing video in a TiVo -like TV set-top box.
Working for Bell Laboratories, Nyquist (among other things) set out theories regarding telegraph speed and transmission that would pave the way for future digitalaudio developments.