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From: rnf@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher)
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Subject: Re: More HyperCard
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Date: 7 Nov 90 00:15:36 GMT
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NOWAKO09@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (APPLE //GS - THE POWER TO BE YOUR BEST) writes:


>for that matter? It would be great. I was using an icon modifing program on
>the icons in on the system disk (5.0.2) and one of the icons in the set is
>a CD icon! Along with a partitioned CD icon! Does this mean that Apple intended
>the GS to have CD capabilities? Is this going on now and I'm missing it?
>At school here (Buffalo State) they have some Macs connectted to a CD rom in
>there LAN and its impressive - with trembling anticipation I ask...GS too?
>                                                 - Joe Nowakowski

Yes, GS/OS has a CD-ROM driver on the setup disk that you can install.
It reads "High Sierra" or ISO-9660 format CD-ROMs.  The Apple CD-ROM
drive is a SCSI device and works fine on the GS with either Apple SCSI
card.  I have not tried it with third party SCSI cards or third party
SCSI CD-ROM drives.

The developer cd's come in with a Apple II partition and with the Apple
II files on the Mac partition.  It also comes with a program called
disk maker that unpacks diskmaker files directly onto a ProDos 800K
floppy.  In this way you can create your own system disks, for example,
that are just like the distributed versions.

Rick Fincher
rnf@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu