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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: cd rom formats
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.041030.1789@alphalpha.com>
Date: 10 Apr 90 04:10:30 GMT
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In article <90.096.22:36:01@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
>Be aware that the NEC is a portable player. I looked at it a few weeks ago,
>it's one comparatively shock proof.
...
>So, this one is not only "quite" slow, it is _really_slow_. It has an average
>access time (this, BTW, being defined as the speed of seeking across one third
>of a full disc and reading the sector there) of one point five _seconds_.

It is however, the ONLY CD-ROM player I've seen that can play CD's when
the Mac is not turned on (it has it's own play button).  Has anyone seen
any others?  I'm going to be buying a ROM drive real soon (my CD player
is dieing anyway) but barring a faster drive than the NEC that also has
a play button I guess I'll be going with the Apple drive.

						-kee



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