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- From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Thrid-party CD-ROM drive on a NeXT?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.072338.12039@gagetalker.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 07:23:38 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.192219.9569@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: scotty@gagetalker.com
- Organization: L5 Computing
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- In article <1992Sep9.192219.9569@athena.mit.edu> isako@mtl.mit.edu (Isako
- Hoshino) writes:
- |> NEC has a CD-ROM drive, street market priced for about $560 with
- |> better specs (280 ms access, 300kb/sec transfer rate for Macintosh
- |> configuration). Can you connect a third-party CD-ROM to a NeXT,
- |> especially if it was configured either for a Macintosh or IBM-compatible?
- |> Has anyone done this before? If so, how?
- Make sure it's a CDR-74. Just today a person at NEC's tech support stated
- that the CDR-73M/CDR-83M are designed for use with the Trantor T-128
- controller only. This person claimed that they required a "ROM upgrade" to
- work with any other controller.
-
- The CDR-74 I have here _does_ work better than my CDR-73M so there is
- something going on here (the CDR-74 has always been a bit twitchy with
- write once discs, the CDR-74 is rock solid on the same discs, my CDR-73M
- also heroic means were needed to install 3.0 using the CDR-73M on my turbo
- color, it seems to like my slab better...)
-
- More details as I learn them...
-
- Scotty
-