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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Inside Macintosh: Will we ever see a revised, updated edition?
Message-ID: <10259@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 90 17:33:27 GMT
References: <14532@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <7202@goofy.Apple.COM> <2878@castle.ed.ac.uk> <7248@goofy.Apple.COM> <10854@hoptoad.uucp>
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In article <10854@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
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>Yes, it's the cheapest on the market for deveopers.  However, look at
>what you get for an audio CD player that's five times cheaper.  You
>can't even *buy* an audio CD player without an autoloading disk drawer;
>but the retail price $1100 Apple CD-ROM player doesn't have one -- it
>has a universally criticized cartridge loader.  For $250, you can buy a
>good audio CD-ROM carousel changer; this is four times cheaper than the
>retail price of the Apple CD-ROM single player.

What a great idea. I can imagine my sony 5 disk carousel cd player on my mac
with 5 cd's showing on my desktop.

Any hardware hackers ready to retrofit my cd player? :-)

>I think CD-ROM has great potential, but people are going to have to face
>facts.  It's not going to be significant until the drive prices drop.

Or they add a lot more features to justify that price.(read/write)

>-- 
>Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com
>









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Matthew Mora
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