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- From: mishizak@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Maki Ishizaki)
- Subject: Re: Can you backup your system to CDs?
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- Organization: University of Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
- References: <Bz2wGJ.GE7@ns1.nodak.edu> <1992Dec12.101143.25318@u.washington.edu> <85495@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 11:35:16 GMT
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- In article <85495@ut-emx.uucp> captain@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec12.101143.25318@u.washington.edu> mower@stein.u.washington.edu (The Lawnmower) writes:
- >>jorgense@plains.NoDak.edu (Lee A. Jorgensen) writes:
- >>>In article <c60a-lj.724017781@danube.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-lj@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Rasputin) writes:
- >>>)jasmith@admin1.memst.edu (John) writes:
- >>>)>CD-ROM drives can you write information to the CD-DISK? This is true isn't it.
- >>>)>I have just assumed this. I can back up my harddrive on a CD can't I?
- >>>)CD-Roms are Read only. The only possible way to do this would be to find
- >>>)someone who presses CD's....
- >>
- >>>OR, buy the new drive that can WRITE CD-ROMS. (of course you need a blank).
- >>>problem ... ~$8000.
- >>
- >>ROM stands for Read ONLY Memory.
- >
- >"Floptical" drives do NOT have to cost $8k. I was just at the U.T.
- >microcomputer center, and got a quote on a read/write 128Meg optical
- >drive for PC-$1880, MAC-$1455. I don't know what the media costs, but
- >it can't be all that much. These drives claim an access time of 63ms;
- >not bad considering everything else (cost, reliability, longevity,
- >storage space...) It would be a great way to store lots of digitized
- >sounds (ob. soundcard ;-).
-
- I think what Lee A. Jorgensen was referring to as a $8k device was
- a drive that writes to a 'blank CD' once and allows you to read off
- of them as a CD-ROM.
-
- This perfectly fits the term WORM (write once read many) that someone
- mentioned in a previous post.
-
- I've seen actual disks that has this capability in a business show
- in Japan back in May/92. They had a gold colour and they called them
- 'CD-R's, if I remember correctly, and had no chance to see the actual
- drive. It was RICOH (a Japanese camera maker) who were promoting this and
- wanted to see what customers thought of this product. I don't know
- if they are publicly available so I don't know what they would cost,
- but it sounds like it would be expensive.
-
- P.S. Why are we talking about this in c.s.i.p.s?
-
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- * Maki Ishizaki *
- * University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada * ___ /
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