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From: philip@Pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Do you *hate* Mac CD-ROM
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Date: 6 Jun 90 20:00:52 GMT
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The thing that puts me off the technology the most is the fact that
the CD ROM technology is totally different from read-write optical
media. The latter would be great for backup/sending really big items
to people without a fast network link; the former is great for low-cost
mass production and the potential for playing music CDs on the same
machine.

What a pity no one could come up with a read/write mechanism that could
also read CD ROMs.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu