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- From: kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Should I hold off for PhotoCD?\
- Keywords: PhotoCD CD ROM
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.231115.7528@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 23:11:15 GMT
- References: <scott.714883764@mcl> <1992Aug30.053954.1629@spdcc.com>
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- In article <1992Aug30.053954.1629@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
- >In article <scott.714883764@mcl> scott@mcl.ucsb.edu (Scott Bronson) writes:
- >>I have the money I need to buy a CD ROM drive (many months of saving,
- >>but now I can access the information I need). I would like to hold off
- >>until PhotoCD compatilble drives arrive, but nobody around here seems
- >>to know when they will get here.
- >
- >It would be pretty zany for Kodak to introduce a CD ROM storage medium
- >which wasn't compatible with the CD ROM media and drives already out there.
- >I'd be mighty surprised if PhotoCDs weren't standard CD ROMs with files
- >written in ISO9660 format.
- >
- >--
- >Steve Dyer
- >dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
-
- Well, most current CD-ROM drives can't handle the Photo-CD format, but
- Photo-CD compatible drives will, of course, be compatible with existing
- CD-ROM's. There are a few more recent CD-ROM drives which *WILL* handle
- the Photo-CD format, though.
-
- Steve "Not Kris, so No Mail!" Johnson
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