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- From: dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
- Subject: Re: CDROM (Toshiba, NEC from DAK, etc...)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.164613.11243@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 16:46:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.142925.24712@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:
- >From article <1992Jul31.013712.15101@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, by dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee):
- >>
- >> I've had one of the DAK cdrom's on back order for a couple months ago.
- >> Having given up, I was happy to see that CSC has a faster drive,
- >> which is also supported by CDROM-FS (the Toshiba XM-3201B, for
- >> $250. I've ordered one, and thought I'd let the net know, in case
- >> anyone else had been left high and dry by DAK.
- >>
- >
- >I am thinking of getting one of those DAK CDROMS for our PC and
- >considered one for the Amiga as well, but when I called them and
- >asked, they said it wasn't scsi. I am curious, how were you
- >going to attach one of DAK's BSR CDROMS to your Amiga?
-
- DAK had a couple. One of them was the NEC CDR-80, which _is_ SCSI.
- Or, was, when they had them...
-
- I forgot to mention that the Toshiba drive for $250, is a refurbished
- unit. It's access time is 350ms, which is pretty swift.
-
- dylan
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