Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!amdahl!krs From: krs@uts.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens [Hail Eris!]) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: When SCSI R/W CDs for the Mac? Message-ID: Date: 11 Sep 90 19:45:16 GMT Reply-To: krs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens [Hail Eris!]) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 16 So, as I think about archives and backups and the cost-per-megabyte of storage media and speed of access and reliability of media, the thought comes to me that a R/W CD drive as a SCSI device would be wonderful. Unless I'm totally out of it (again! :-) , the NeXT uses such a drive as its primary storage medium, though perhaps not as an internal SCSI device, but with some other interface. Anybody heard any rumors along these lines? I'd sure leap at it unless the base unit was fiercely expensive. ...Kris -- Kristopher Stephens, | (408-746-6047) | krs@uts.amdahl.com | KC6DFS Amdahl Corporation | | | [The opinions expressed above are mine, solely, and do not ] [necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corp. ]