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From: pclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Peter Clark)
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Subject: Re: Can NeXT play audio CD's?
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Date: 4 Jun 90 22:53:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: daugher@cs.tamu.edu's message of 4 Jun 90 19:23:42 GMT

Daughter@cs.tamu.edu writes:

>Is there any way NeXT (read Canon) can also read this standard?
>
>	"And yes, you CAN play your CD audio discs in the SunCD! A headset or
>	speakers can be plugged into the audio jack located on the front
>	panel."
>
>Can a NeXT do that?

No, a NeXT can't do that, because NeXT doesn't have a CD-ROM disk drive. The
NeXT disk drive is a magneto-optical read-write disk system.
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The Canon disk drive doesn't read CD-ROMs, and no-one's disk drive will write
them (at least more than once). There are lots of third-party CD-ROM drives
(including one by apple) which can be hooked to the SCSI port, given
appropriate device drivers. 

	Pete Clark
	Honeywell SRC

	pclark@src.honeywell.com