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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Re: CD-ROM documents (was Paperless Office)
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Date: 30 Nov 90 19:15:34 GMT
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In article <2209.27561d1c@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>, herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:

>Geographic in the startup costs of such a venture.  Why are CDROM 
>drives moving down the price learning curve so much slower than CD players?
>dan herrick
>dlh Performance Marketing

I'm still waiting for a release of a multi-disk CD-ROM player. Not like the
mechanics are all that tough, since you can purchase up to 10-stack CD
players at a time.

Response time might not be blazing (oooh, gotta wait the 2-5 seconds to switch
disks out), but it would be MUCH cheaper than racking 4-5 CD players together
off a SCSI.
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