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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!amdcad!angelo!ching
- From: ching@angelo.amd.com (Mike Ching)
- Subject: Re: Caddyless CD-ROM Drives for the Mac?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.012914.20450@amd.com>
- Keywords: CD, caddy, CD300i, Photo CD
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- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA
- References: <1992Nov9.195547.14783@cs.ucla.edu> <1992Nov10.022058.3245@reed.edu> <1992Nov10.163109.23620@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:29:14 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Nov10.163109.23620@nwnexus.WA.COM> kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky) writes:
- >
- >How can the caddy keep the disc from moving if the disc isn't even
- >touching the caddy? The motor and spindle are the only thing attached
- >to the disc while it's moving.
- >
- >
- >The caddys *are* used to protect the disc, and they work great if you
- >have a caddy for each disc and don't ever take them out. Having a caddy
- >for each disc is even conceivable, if you never use audio CDs in your
- >CD-ROM drive. Unfortunately, lots of people (including myself) *do*
- >want to use audio CDs, and it's a pain to constantly swap discs in and
- >out of a caddy. They should probably have just made the caddy a
- >standard part of the CD medium, like Sony's doing with the new 3"
- >recordable CD medium.
- >
- >--
- >Steve Kanefsky
-
-
- Or ship the CD in a caddy instead of the jewel case.
-
- Mike Ching
-