Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!marty From: marty@atmos.ogi.edu (Marty Shearer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Erasable Optical Drives Keywords: optical drives sources Message-ID: <16185@ogicse.ogi.edu> Date: 18 Jan 91 00:33:22 GMT Sender: news@ogicse.ogi.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute, Atmospheric Sciences, Beaverton, OR Lines: 8 I am scouting for any information that any one give me on sources and (hopefully!) personal experience in using an erasable optical drive with a pc. Specifically a 486/25 mhz Compaq Deskpro. Has any one out there installed and/or used one? We specifically are interested in storing large, infrequently used databases that have to be altered at rare intervals and kept until the world ends. Thanks - Marty