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- FWB Announces CD-ROM ToolKit - Increases CD-ROM Performance
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- Contact: FWB, Inc.
- Steve Goodman
- 2040 Polk Street - Suite 215
- San Francisco, CA 94109
- 415-474-8055
- AppleLink: FWB
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- FWB Announces CD-ROM ToolKit
- - Utility Increases CD-ROM Performance up to 1,800% -
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- San Francisco, CA - October 15, 1992
- FWB, Inc. of San Francisco, CA today announced a new Macintosh utility, CD-ROM
- ToolKit™, that works in the background to make CD-ROM drives perform faster and
- more reliably. The $79.95 (SRP) package will ship in December. CD-ROM ToolKit
- uses advanced caching techniques to improve CD-ROM performance as much as
- 1,800%. By caching and prefetching repeatedly used information to a hard drive
- and RAM, CD-ROM ToolKit allows searches and seeks to take place almost
- instantaneously, dramatically improving drive operation and user productivity.
- CD-ROM ToolKit also includes a robust device driver that delivers reliable
- support for most popular CD-ROM drives, and an audio control desk accessory for
- improved management of audio playback. Unlike most current drivers, CD-ROM
- ToolKit fully supports all of Apple’s multimedia standards.
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- “CD-ROM ToolKit makes using CD-ROM drives more productive and enjoyable”,
- according to Steve Goodman, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at FWB.
- “Unlike other utilities, CD-ROM ToolKit operates transparently and is
- completely configurable. Users can allocate additional hard disk space or
- available RAM to the caching for even faster performance.”
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- CD-ROM ToolKit’s high performance device driver allows any CD-ROM drive to read
- Kodak’s new PhotoCD disc format. FWB’s universal software provides unique
- support for Apple HFS, High Sierra, ISO 9660, PhotoCD, ProDOS and MS-DOS discs.
- CD-ROM ToolKit includes “custom-tuned” support for all popular drives from
- Toshiba, Sony, Chinon, Pioneer, Apple, NEC, Phillips, plus multi-speed,
- multi-session and multi-platter devices.
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- Customers report that “find file” operations that took 28 seconds before
- acceleration, take only 1.1 seconds after installing CD-ROM ToolKit. Opening
- all folders on the “World Fact Book” disc, from Wayzata, takes 38 seconds
- without acceleration, and less than 14 seconds after accelerating the same
- disc.
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- CD-ROM ToolKit’s convenient Desk Accessory allows any drive equipped with audio
- output jacks to play audio CDs with complete playback control, including
- advanced features such as fast forward, shuffle and programmable playback
- order.
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- CD-ROM ToolKit joins FWB’s highly acclaimed Hard Disk ToolKit™ and its
- best-selling, entry-level version, Hard Disk ToolKit•Personal Edition™, to
- round out the company’s family of SCSI management software. CD-ROM ToolKit will
- be available wherever Macintosh software is sold.
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- FWB, Inc. has been developing mass storage and backup products specifically for
- Macintosh since 1984. FWB products include Hammer™ and PocketHammer® and
- HammerPB™ hard drives, SledgeHammer® RAID Arrays, HammerDisk® optical and
- removable drives, HammerTape™ and HammerDAT™ tape backup systems, and the SCSI
- JackHammer™ SCSI-2 accelerator board. FWB also publishes Hard Disk ToolKit™,
- and hard Disk ToolKit•Personal Edition™ SCSI utility software. FWB’s products
- have been consistently rated the best in their class by publications such as
- MacWEEK, MacUser, MacWorld, PC WEEK, PC Magazine, and BYTE.
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- This information is provided by the product's developer or distributor and
- constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation by Apple Computer,
- Inc.. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to selection, performance or
- use of this product. All understandings, agreements and warranties, if any,
- take place directly between the developer and the prospective user.
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