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- Subject: Re: Wanted--Info:Optical Drives??
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 15:42:51 GMT
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- In article <BswJ3p.MK9@acsu.buffalo.edu> darweesh@acsu.buffalo.edu (michael j darweesh) writes:
- >>As far as I know, no one makes such a drive. I believe that the spin
- >>speeds and laser power/properties of CD-ROM and MO drives are very
- >>different. Some day, they could be integrated, but probably at great
- >>expense. Byt an 3.5" MO and a CD-ROM drive separately; it'll cost
- >>less that a 5.25 MO, and the MO will run faster.
- >
- >As far as I know you are wrong. I would however point out that with the
- >last year, MacUser did a feature article where they reveiwed several
- >5.25 MO drives. Look for that mag in your library or wherever.
- >The 3.5s sound neat, but a 5.25 that can also read CDROM would be my
- >choice....
-
- Which part is wrong? The cost, or the existance of a drive that does
- both MO and CD-ROM? If you know of a drive that does both CD-ROM and
- MO, tell me about it, I'd be interested to know more. As for the
- MacUser article, all I could find was the July 92 issue, but it didn't
- seem to say anything about drives that could read both formats.
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