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From: wln@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (William L Nussbaum)
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Subject: Re: SCSI CD-ROM
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Date: 21 Dec 90 08:28:56 GMT
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In article <11004@helios.TAMU.EDU> cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick) writes:
>The following is offered for information only. Since NeXT and Sun seem to be totally
>committed to CD-ROM technology, it would appear obvious that CD-ROM is a
>very strongly emerging technology.  I offer this in the spirit that what is hot, well made and
>cheap is of benefit to us all. I have no affiliation with NEC whatsoever, and
>the following is in no way intended as an endorsement of any commercial product.


No!  The NEC CDR-35 seems to be one of the most poorly behaved CD-ROM 
drives around. A friend has one, and though neither he nor I has a NeXT
(or access to a NeXT, for that matter), it has rarely even worked on his
Mac IIci (the first one didn't -- it worked on his [I think it was a Plus
or SE, but I'm not sure] but stopped working when he got his IIci; the
second one (which was sent to replace his first one after NEC couldn't
figure out what was wrong only works with a bizarre, unorthodox combination
of terminators, chain organization, and other devices.  And it didn't like
my IIcx much either, sad-mac-ing once or twice before we got it to work, again
with unusual termination, startup sequence, etc.

From what I've been able to tell, it's not the bargain it seems.

| William Lee Nussbaum, Jr.
| wln@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu