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- From: howie@intermec.com (Howard Kaplan x1696)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Apple's new CD ROM 300i drive external, anybody?
- Keywords: CD ROM
- Message-ID: <2056@intermec.UUCP>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 20:03:54 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.175340.17730@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Reply-To: howie@intermec.com (Howard Kaplan x1696)
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- Organization: Intermec Corporation, Everett WA
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- In article <1993Jan2.175340.17730@cc.umontreal.ca> parej@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Pare Jerome) writes:
- >Hello NETers!
- >First, happy new year to all of you!
- >I'm about to buy a CD ROM drive. So I'd like to hear from anyone who have
- >tried it if it's really as good as they say it is, if it's as fast as they
- >say it is, and if it's really that good a deal (at around $500, if I remember
- >correctly?).
- >So if any of you have tried it, please drop me a note.
- >Thanks a lot!
- >
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- I have the internal version of the same drive in my IIvx. So far it works
- fine. I haven't noticed any problems and it seems reasonably fast.
-
-
- Here is a rundown of the disks included though they may not bundle the same
- disks with the external.
-
- From Alice to the Ocean - very nice photos about a womensand narrations of a
- voyage in Autralia from the town of Alice to the ocean by a woman travelling
- herself.
-
- Kodak Photo CD Sampler
-
- Mac Games Sampler - an amazing number are included. I did find a minor
- problem with this disk. It comes up with a "run time" only version of Easy
- Access. When quiting the machine will always bomb. Work around by opening
- the samplers from their folders directly.
-
- Mozart String Quartet (I forget the number) - Has a companion HyperCard stack
- which analyzes the piece. The audio portion can be played on any CD player.
-
- Nautilus Demo Disk - Demo of the features of Nautilus which is a monthly CD
- publishing of Shareware etc. The Windham Hill (recording company) sampler
- had some MTV like Quicktime tracks.
-
- Kids Story - I forget the name, but the program "read" the stroy as the pages
- are turned. Slick, but for young beginning readers.
-
- Apple CD source book - A complete listing of CD ROMs currently published. The
- drive also came with a nice hard copy of CD publications.
-
- There is one more disc, but I can't recall what it was. All ther disks came
- in a nice wallet type notebook with sleeves for the CDs.
-
-
- One other observation was when audio CDs are played the volume level seemed
- too low. This is probably a decision on Apples part to not overdrive the
- internal speaker of the VX. This may be different with the external drive or
- if I connected to external speakers.
-
- Howard Kaplan
-
- Howard Kaplan
-