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- From: rex@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Rex Sanders)
- Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
- Subject: New - $4K Write-Once CD-ROM Drive
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 05:07:30 GMT
- Organization: Stanford University
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- Pinnacle Micro announced at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco a new,
- recordable CD-ROM drive with a list price of $3,995! This price
- includes ISO 9660 and HFS software for Macs. PC interface kit and
- software is extra $200.
-
- This device is half-height, 5.25" SCSI, 1x recording speed. Supports
- all commond CD-ROM formats, including multiple-session. Supports
- standard write-once media, including Kodak's.
-
- I asked a rep if you need a fast hard disk to feed this device, as you
- do with many other write-once drives. His reply (paraphrased):
-
- We tested this with the slowest hard drive we could find - and
- Apple 40 Mb. Worked fine. All you need is a hard drive with
- 173 Kb/sec throughput. Floppies won't work, but everything else
- we tried did work.
-
- Well, don't know if this is hype or not, but this rep also claimed the
- entire January production run was sold out, and they were now taking
- February delivery orders.
-
- The device was not much to look at - looks like a half-height CD-ROM
- drive in and external box.
-
- Proper software to drive these boxes has been the Achille's heel of
- earlier write-once CD-ROM drives. The Pinnacle rep claimed they had
- been working more than one year on the software, and acknowledged that
- writing it was difficult (again paraphrasing, he used non-family-values
- language here :-).
-
- For me, and several other MacWorld Expo attendees I talked to, this
- announcement was the highlight of the show.
-
- Presumbably, you can get more information by contacting:
-
- Pinnacle Micro
- 19 Technology Drive, Irvine, CA 92718
- 800-553-7070, +1-714-727-3300, +1-714-727-1913 (fax)
-
- Anyway, caveat emptor. I have no connection, can't make any
- recommendations, etc.
-
- -- Rex
- rex@octopus.wr.usgs.gov
-