Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!udel!haven!mimsy!mojo!SYSMGR@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: CD-ROM documents (was Paperless Office) Message-ID: <00940C7A.9E181960@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> Date: 6 Dec 90 17:02:13 GMT References: <1990Nov16.234227.3246@cs.cmu.edu> <11191@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <00940487.15804140@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>,<28083@mimsy.umd.edu> <009406EF.82F93E60@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>,<2209.27561d1c@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <009407D6.4101A640@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>, Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Reply-To: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) Organization: The U. of MD, CP, CAD lab Lines: 19 In article , bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) writes: > >There's apparently a 6 disk changer available from Pioneer. It's advertised in MacWeek >12/4/90 by Relax Technology for $1100 in quantities of one, $999 for ten or more. I >don't know if it's actually shipping, or just being advertised in anticipation of >availability. Yah, I stand somewhat corrected (should start reading "Byte" again, I guess); someone sent me a mail message on the sucker. They have one. Big drawback is access time when swapping CDs. Between this and cheap CD production (two sources previously listed on here, Nimbus I talked with myself, will print 100 CDs for around $1600), we're coming to a new age of information saturation :-) %%%%% Signature v2.0 %%%%% Doug Mohney, Operations Manager, CAD Lab/ME, Univ. of Maryland College Park * If Apple's pricing strategy had been as exciting as their commercials, * * Windows 3.0 would have never been written *