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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Eraseable Optical Drives
Message-ID: <1990Jul17.061409.23165@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Jul 90 06:14:09 GMT
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In article <1990Jul17.043311.20221@portia.Stanford.EDU>,
declan@portia.Stanford.EDU writes:
> 
> Later this year, NeXT will announce a new system with (among many new
features)
> what will probably be a 512 MB, 32 ms optical disk drive based on Canon's
> new drive mechanism.  No price has been set, but I'd expect it to be
> comfortably under $2,000 - perhaps even closer to $1,500.

I heard somewhere that a European company was working on an erasable OD
that would also be able to play CD ROMs (and presumably music CDs). This
sounds like something worth waiting for. Does anyone have information on
this?

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu