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- From: weigert@etlhit.etl.go.jp (Thomas Weigert)
- Subject: Re: NEC CD ROM Drive Experiences
- In-Reply-To: sevans@andy.bgsu.edu's message of Sat, 18 Jul 1992 21: 05:44 GMT
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- Organization: Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba-shi, Japan
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:37:17 GMT
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- SWE> I JUST got a CDR-74 and am truely impressed! Although
- SWE> the seek time is darn good for a CD-ROM drive the
- SWE> transfer rate is incredible. When copying files to my
- SWE> hard drive from the CD ROM the "reading" and "writing"
- SWE> messages displayed by Sys7 are displayed for
- SWE> approximatly equal amounts of time. The hard drive I
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- Sounds great, but a word of warning here. I have yet to
- encounter a third party CD ROM drive that is able to load
- Apple's A/UX (which is distributed only on CD). So if your
- future at some time includes Unix, be careful.
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- Cheers, Thomas.
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- | Machine Inference Section | |
- | Electrotechnical Laboratory | |
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