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- From: mayhem@tonka.bu.edu (Luigi Mattera)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Reno CD-ROM drives at Halted Electronics
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 15:38:34 GMT
- Organization: Boston University
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- John J Palmer (jjp02@www.gnofn.org) wrote:
- : Halted Electronics at 1 800 4-halted was selling them for about $79,
- : advertising in Nuts and Volts Magazine, and posting by their Email...
- : give themn a shot (shout?)
- : Let us know how well they work - I was real
- : tempted to buy one for my Amiga 3000 at home, and to share it at work.
-
- I own a Reno, hooked it up to my B2000 with Dataflyer SCSI/IDE
- interface. It works quite nicely. I'm using AsimCDFS (mouthful
- there), and it gives the drive a nice speed boost - I've uncompressed
- megabyte sized files from Aminet Set 2 and it hasn't taken as long as
- you would expect from a double speed CDROM. Direct SCSI playing does
- work, but you need an 030+ with LOTS of RAM to get any decent amount
- of playing time.
-
- I have only two complaints about the drive:
- 1. It doesn't have as many fancy abilities as most CD players in the
- same price range. I expected this though, so I can live with it.
-
- 2. It DRAIN batteries like NO TOMORROW! I'm serious. With 4 AA in
- the CD player itself, you can play ONE CD through before you have to
- toss the batteries. Use 8 AA in the base section and you increase
- audio time by a scant 20 minutes, although you can now use it like a
- CD ROM drive. *Sigh* You need rechargeables with this thing, and
- even then, the battery drain is an annoyance.
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