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- From: sklower@diva.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Sklower)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs
- Subject: Re: WORM recommendations ?
- Message-ID: <44621@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 03:04:21 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.104548@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Aug14.104548@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov> sullivan@gorgo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dan sullivan) writes:
- }We are looking for WORM drive recommendations.....
- }Anyone have any recommendations ... ?
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- You didn't indicate what size media you were interested in.
- Both Phillips and Sony have announce CD-WORM drives (i.e. ~600 Meg
- capacity, cartridges being able to be read on any CD-ROM).
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- The Sony drive writes double speed (~500KBytes/sec) and costs about $12K.
- They are back-ordered up the wazoo; a friend works for a company that
- uses them for audio purposes and reports that the first few drives
- are temparamental; sony had a older unit that ran for $25K, and eventually
- they got the bugs out and were quite reliable. The problems were almost
- all in the firmware, which was easily replaced. Call 408 information for sony
- electronic publishing in San Jose (I don't have the number handy).
-
- The phillips drive could be had for $8500 earlier this summer from a company
- called Optical Media, International. (in cupertino). I don't have
- that phone number either.
-