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From: fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (Rice Don D)
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Subject: Re: CD-ROM delays (was Re: CD-ROMs from DECUS)
Summary: No CD-ROM drives
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Date: 14 Sep 90 16:45:20 GMT
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In article <15500018@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, sritacco@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Steve Ritacco) writes...
>The DEC CD-ROM drive RRD40 exists, and so does RISC Ultrix on CD-ROM.
>I have both (UWS 2.1). My guess is that it is the Ultrix 4.0 CD-ROM
>that is holding you up.  They probably didn't want to master the CD
>until they got things cleaned up a bit.
> 
>You didn't buy a non-existant product, in fact loading Ultrix from
>CD-ROM is a joy compared to the normal tape stuff.

I just heard back from our salesguys that the RRD40 is out of stock, and they
can't find a ship date for it, but probably a few weeks.  They also couldn't
get a ship date for the media and docs (also out of stock), but I hope it
is no worse than the Oct 1 date mentioned previously for Ultrix 4.0 docs.
Incidentally, I found out where our workstations have been the last two
weeks when they were supposed to be here.  Someday I will look back and
laugh and write up the whole story for alt.folklore.computers...
> 
>On the other hand, DEC's comitment to CD-ROM is questionable.
>Just try to get anything but Ultrix or VMS on CD-ROM!
> 
I hope they come up with either Bookreader or the general ISO format read
routines for CD-ROM on Ultrix soon...they were the main reasons for specifying
the RRD40.  But right now I'd be happy to see anything from DEC, because we
still have _zip_.

Don Rice                                  Internet: fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu
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