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- From: rt24s25@wwrld.com (Richard Tobin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Reno CD-ROM drives a
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- Message-ID: <rt24s25.026l@wwrld.com>
- Date: 7 Mar 96 22:29:56 EDT
- Organization: Walts World BBS 904 724-2030
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- On 1 Mar 19 at 6:15 AM, mayhem@tonka.bu.edu said to All:
-
- Ma> John J Palmer (jjp02@www.gnofn.org) wrote:
- Ma> : Halted Electronics at 1 800 4-halted was selling them for about $79,
- Ma> : advertising in Nuts and Volts Magazine, and posting by their Email...
- Ma> : give themn a shot (shout?)
- Ma> : Let us know how well they work - I was real
- Ma> : tempted to buy one for my Amiga 3000 at home, and to share it at work.
-
- Ma> I own a Reno, hooked it up to my B2000 with Dataflyer SCSI/IDE
- Ma> interface. It works quite nicely. I'm using AsimCDFS (mouthful there),
- Ma> and it gives the drive a nice speed boost - I've uncompressed megabyte
- Ma> sized files from Aminet Set 2 and it hasn't taken as long as you would
- Ma> expect from a double speed CDROM. Direct SCSI playing does work, but
- Ma> you need an 030+ with LOTS of RAM to get any decent amount of playing
- Ma> time.
-
- Ma> I have only two complaints about the drive:
- Ma> 1. It doesn't have as many fancy abilities as most CD players in the
- Ma> same price range. I expected this though, so I can live with it.
-
- Ma> 2. It DRAIN batteries like NO TOMORROW! I'm serious. With 4 AA in the
- Ma> CD player itself, you can play ONE CD through before you have to toss
- Ma> the batteries. Use 8 AA in the base section and you increase audio time
- Ma> by a scant 20 minutes, although you can now use it like a CD ROM drive.
- Ma> *Sigh* You need rechargeables with this thing, and even then, the
- Ma> battery drain is an annoyance.
-
- I went and bought one through Hartland America and NEVER got to hook it up.
-
- I opened the nice sealed box took a look inside and found the drive, cables,
- headphones, all of the IBM/MAC software, and a 220V 50HZ powersupply.
- Now, How am I to use this thing with my computer with such a thing,
- (considering that I live the US). I had to pack the hole thing up and send
- it back to the people that I got it from in the first place (I called the
- US distributor, they said that I should have gotten a 110V 60HZ powersupply).
-
- Maybe I'll get it right the next time.
-
- ... It works! Now, if only I could remember what I did...
-